Ann Cattanach

While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches…

Praise for the first edition: 'Ann Cattanach writes with enormous empathy and warmth, and with a refreshing lack of sentimentality... [This] is an unpretentious and…

Love is at the centre of this remarkable picture book, and while there is no happy ending for Malpas, there is understanding. The pictures are…

Narrative play is a way of communicating with children using imaginative stories and narratives to share and make sense of life events. This book describes…

Identity is formed through the narration of experience, and children who experience difficult life events may need help in forming and expressing their own narratives.…

Arts therapists are becoming increasingly interested in process as it is manifested in their work. The multiplicity of levels at which process operates is the…

For therapists working with children one of the main obstacles to effective treatment is the difficulty of finding an appropriate means of communication; both in…

Play is one of the most creative opportunities open to a child, and is becoming of increasing interest to therapists and others in the caring…