Reviews of my books

Reviews of my books

Ariel, Shlomo. 2019. Integrative Play Therapy with Individuals, Families and Groups. UK: Routledge
A masterful blending of play therapy theories and techniques in make-believe play sessions. Thought-provoking and insightful.
Charles Schaefer, Ph.D., Registered Play Therapy Supervisor , Co-Founder & Director Emeritus, The Association for Play Therapy, USA (from a back cover blurb).


Integrative Play Therapy with Individuals, Families and Groups provides a comprehensive blueprint to guide both beginning and seasoned practitioners. Ariel methodically links concepts from systems, linguistic, and play theory to create an innovative, integrated approach to diagnosis and treatment, the Diamond Model. The application of the model is illustrated though compelling and in-depth case examples in varying treatment formats. The practice of integrative play therapy is further exhibited by thought-provoking dialogues about the cases with an interdisciplinary team. The complexity of issues confronting practitioners today is daunting. Ariel’s book offers
a theoretically grounded, methodical, and thorough guide to construct effective and playful interventions.
Professor Anne Stewart, Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Member of the Association for Play Therapy Board of Directors. Past President of the Virginia Association for Play Therapy. (from a back cover blurb).
Ariel, Shlomo. 2018. Multidimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults: The Diamond Model. UK: Routledge.
In this fascinating book, Dr. Ariel provides a superb framework for learning to be an integrative therapist. The book brings an energetic and unique perspective; giving access to inner workings of language in therapy, thus providing critical ground for learning from clinical experience. Dr. Ariel’s background in linguistics gives him ease in dealing with and integrating concepts and findings from various fields. He creates a language, simultaneously alive and rigorous, for acknowledging and working creatively with the unending complexity of human experience.
David Keith, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Family Therapy, Upstate Medical
University, Syracuse, N.Y. (from a back cover blurb).
Ariel, Shlomo. 2018. Multidimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults: The Diamond Model. UK: Routledge.
This outstanding book provides a comprehensive overview of The Diamond Model,developed by the author. It sheds a new light on the ways systemic therapists can proceed through all the stages of therapy, applying an integration of various effective techniques. The author has demonstrated his capacity to clarify his multidimensional and culturally informed Diamond Model in a way that is easy to understand. Recently, Dr. Ariel trained a first generation of family therapists to apply The Diamond Model here in Kosovo. The trainees have found this model very useful as a theory-into-practice guide for working with complex cases.
Mimoza Shahini, Dr. Sci.; Associate Professor, Faculty of Education,
Mitrovica University; Director, The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric
Clinic, Prishtina University, Kosovo (from a back cover blurb).
Ariel, Shlomo. 2002. Children`s Imaginative Play- A Visit to Wonderland. Westport, Ct: Greenwood/Praeger.
As Shlomo Ariel guides the reader through observation, research, and psychotherapy with children engaging in symbolic play, the experience is refreshing and enlightening. He has examined children`s pretend or make-believe play with detailed attention to their language, their social interactions, and their cognitions. This is a challenging, thought-provoking book for readers interested in the science and clinical implications of early play. The analysis of children`s spontaneous language and nonverbal communication processes is especially insightful and opens up further research opportunities.
Jerome L. Singer Professor of Psychology and Child Studies, Yale University.  (from a back cover blurb).

"It is a privilege to write the foreword to a book which totally transformed this field of play study in such a novel and brilliant way".
Cited from the foreword to this book by Brian Sutton-Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.
Ariel, Shlomo. 1999. Culturally Competent Family Therapy: A General Model. Westport, Ct: Greenwood/Praeger.
In this book Ariel has promulgated a fascinating and clinically useful models for conducting culturally competent family therapy. Much sensitivity is conveyed as he articulates his paradigms. His theoretical discussions are further illuminated in well selected case illustrations. This comprehensive volume could well become essential reading for those engaged in treating bicultural couples, couples who have adopted children from other countries or other racial or ethnic groups within their own countries, patients from very different cultural backgrounds and with very different life experiences from one's own, as well as for those reaching , supervising or condicting research about this seminal issue in today's society.

This enlightening treatise has relevance to the thinking and practice of mental health professionals across borders. It is both timely and universal in its depth, breadth and scope.
From a foreword to this book by Florence Kaslow, Past President of the International Family Therapy Association and past President of the Family Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.


"Ariel addresses this timely and important matter in an articulate and well researched fashion…."

Choice.
A much needed volume that places the enterprise of family therapy squarely in the cultural context. Building on the author's earlier work in information processing models, Dr. Ariel provides the reader with an outstanding set of conceptual tools for enhancing family therapy practice in an increasingly ethno-culturally diverse world.
Ronald F.Levant, Dean, Nova Southeastern University; Former Editor, Journal of Family Psychology; Past President of the American Psychological Association.

Sensitive, creative and intellectually rigorous – a remarkable combination. Shlomo Ariel's treatment of culturally sensitive therapy addresses some of the most important and most neglected sources of dysfunction and healing in families.
Israel W.Charny. Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Past President of the International Family Thertapy Association. 

Ariel, Shlomo (1994) Strategic Family Play Therapy. Chichester: Wiley.
Shlomo Ariel…gives excellent indications of how to invite and facilitate families in doing what may seem at first to be too difficult, embarrassing or uncomfortable, and gives vivid illustrations of the sort of play that can be evoked and his way of making use of it….Shlomo Ariel`s book is to be commended to those who are looking for ways of involving children and adults in a different way. It requires a good deal of thought in terms of equipment, space and careful preparation of materials, but once this is done the rewards seem considerable.
Arnon Bentovim, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Hospital for Sick Children, London. Past President of the International Family Therapy Association. 

The case illustrations are fascinating…This book will be of considerable interest to play therapists wanting to draw more on families` resources and to play therapists wishing to involve young children more directly in the therapeutic process.

Frances Guilford, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Bolton Health Authority, from a review in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Ariel, Shlomo. 1999. Culturally Competent Family Therapy: A General Model. Westport, Ct: Greenwood/Praeger.
Culturally Competent Family Therapy is a path breaking book, intellectually demanding on the reader for its sheer sweep, while at the same time setting clear signposts for practicing family therapists. The author takes us through his framework step by step, explaining the meaning of theoretical constructs and the use of technical terms simply and clearly. The author's empathic and respectful understanding of the complexity of human emotions, fundamental beliefs and attempts at problem solving shines through all the way. Ariel brilliantly demonstrates the pitfalls of ethnocentric and culture-blind approaches on the one hand, and of cook-book approaches on the other.

This book is bound to become a key text for students and experienced practitioners alike.

I thoroughly recommend this book as a general integrative framework which

allows any therapist or counselor to examine their own values and ways of

working with individuals, families, couples or groups.
Hilde Rapp, Chair of the British Initiative for Integrative Practice, Associate Editor, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
Ariel, Shlomo. 1999. Culturally Competent Family Therapy: A General Model. Westport, Ct: Greenwood/Praeger.
A much needed volume that places the enterprise of family therapy squarely in the cultural context. Building on the author's earlier work in information processing models, Dr. Ariel provides the reader with an outstanding set of conceptual tools for enhancing family therapy practice in an increasingly ethno-culturally diverse world.

Sensitive, creative and intellectually rigorous – a remarkable combination. Shlomo Ariel's treatment of culturally sensitive therapy addresses some of the most important and most neglected sources of dysfunction and healing in families.

"Ariel addresses this timely and important matter in an articulate and well researched fashion…."
Ronald F.Levant, Dean, Nova Southeastern University; Former Editor, Journal of Family Psychology; Past President of the American Psychological Association.


Israel W. Charny, Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Past President of the Internation Family Therapy Association.

Choice.
Ariel, Shlomo (1994) Strategic Family Play Therapy. Chichester: Wiley.
Shlomo Ariel…gives excellent indications of how to invite and facilitate families in doing what may seem at first to be too difficult, embarrassing or uncomfortable, and gives vivid illustrations of the sort of play that can be evoked and his way of making use of it….Shlomo Ariel`s book is to be commended to those who are looking for ways of involving children and adults in a different way. It requires a good deal of thought in terms of equipment, space and careful preparation of materials, but once this is done the rewards seem considerable.

The case illustrations are fascinating…This book will be of considerable interest to play therapists wanting to draw more on families` resources and to play therapists wishing to involve young children more directly in the therapeutic process.
Arnon Bentovim, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Hospital for Sick Children, London. Past President of the International Family Therapy Association.

Frances Guilford, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Bolton Health Authority, from a review in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology.
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