piPolyvagal Power in the Playroom ishows therapists how to treat children using play therapy to address the hierarchy of autonomic states. What do children need and how do play therapists purposefully use the principles of play to increase the feeling states of safety and regulation Step inside the playroom and discover how trained play therapists are addressing treatment using polyvagal theory when working with children and teens.pp The book is organized into three parts pp 1. iInterruptionsi explores developmental derailments brought about by relational betrayals such as domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and attachment ruptures implicated in a myriad of adverse childhood experiences. In these cases, the neuroception of safety scaffolded through good enough rhythms of healthy caregiverchild interactions is either compromised through a thousand relational cuts parental addiction or parental mental illness or abruptly ended divorce, death or incarceration of a parent.pp 2. iHappeni