Play therapy for children and adolescents
WHAT IS PLAY THERAPY & WHY CHOOSE IT FOR YOUR CHILD
Play therapy is the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.
CURATIVE POWERS OF PLAY ARE :
- Self-Expression - Access to the Unconscious
- Facilitation of the Learning Process - Metaphorical Insight
- Relieving and Re-enactment of Traumatic Events - Guidance
- Catharsis (psychological expression of the accumulated conflicts)
- Sublimation (substituting unacceptable urges into acceptable emotions and behaviour)
- Alliance Formation with the Therapist - Building Attachments
- Building Moral Judgement - Power/Control Assessment
- Teaching Self-Control - Building Competence
- Gaining Empathy and Competence - Instillation of Hope
Main Healing Powers of Play are Self-Expression and Self-Disclosure, which are facilitated during the Play Therapy to help a child identify his problems/conflicts, understand these conflicts, accept them and cope with them.
Play therapy can be used with clients of a wide age range- as early as 3-4 years old with no limit of a maximum age where a play therapy can be applied. It DOES work with all the ages.
Play therapy was shown to be quite effective in comparison to other kinds of psychological treatment and the results of a research on play therapy were published in such journals as Psychological Bulletin, International Journal of Play Therapy and others.
Since there are different kinds of play therapy and therapeutic techniques, each psychological problem/disorder is approached with a particular chosen play therapy technique in a manner of being the best match/fit for a problem the client presents with.
The tools of play therapy through which a child/adolescent is able to express his conflicting feelings and thoughts are: play-do materials, puppets, dolls, Lego, board games, which emphasize the feeling and thinking processes of a child/adolescent, building blocks, short stories, doll houses, etc.
Play therapy is available at the Center of Revitalizing Psychiatry
Play therapy is the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.
CURATIVE POWERS OF PLAY ARE :
- Self-Expression - Access to the Unconscious
- Facilitation of the Learning Process - Metaphorical Insight
- Relieving and Re-enactment of Traumatic Events - Guidance
- Catharsis (psychological expression of the accumulated conflicts)
- Sublimation (substituting unacceptable urges into acceptable emotions and behaviour)
- Alliance Formation with the Therapist - Building Attachments
- Building Moral Judgement - Power/Control Assessment
- Teaching Self-Control - Building Competence
- Gaining Empathy and Competence - Instillation of Hope
Main Healing Powers of Play are Self-Expression and Self-Disclosure, which are facilitated during the Play Therapy to help a child identify his problems/conflicts, understand these conflicts, accept them and cope with them.
Play therapy can be used with clients of a wide age range- as early as 3-4 years old with no limit of a maximum age where a play therapy can be applied. It DOES work with all the ages.
Play therapy was shown to be quite effective in comparison to other kinds of psychological treatment and the results of a research on play therapy were published in such journals as Psychological Bulletin, International Journal of Play Therapy and others.
Since there are different kinds of play therapy and therapeutic techniques, each psychological problem/disorder is approached with a particular chosen play therapy technique in a manner of being the best match/fit for a problem the client presents with.
The tools of play therapy through which a child/adolescent is able to express his conflicting feelings and thoughts are: play-do materials, puppets, dolls, Lego, board games, which emphasize the feeling and thinking processes of a child/adolescent, building blocks, short stories, doll houses, etc.
Play therapy is available at the Center of Revitalizing Psychiatry
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