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    Play therapy uses toys and play to help children address and resolve their own problems. It differs from regular play because a therapist helps guide the process. Benefits of play therapy include helping children develop social skills, learn to express emotions, and build self-efficacy. While mainly used for children ages 3-12, play techniques have also helped teenagers and adults by providing an alternative way to address psychosocial difficulties through recreational activities.

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    Play Therapy

    AN EXPLANATION AND HOW IT IS BENEFICIAL

    WHAT IS PLAY THERAPY?

    The Association for Play Therapy (APT) defined play

    therapy as "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

    grwoth and development".

    WHAT MAKES PLAY


    THERAPY DIFFERENT FROM
    REGULAR PLAY?

    Play therapy differs from regular play in that the

    therapist helps children to address and resolve their

    own problems. It helps build on the natural way

    that children learn about themselves and the

    realtionships in the world around them.

    WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS TO PLAY THERAPY?

    Can help children:

    Become more responsible for behaviors and develop more successful

    strategies

    Develop new and creative solutions to problems

    Develop respect and acceptance of self and others

    Learn to experience and express emotion

    Cultivate empathy and respect for thoughts and feelings of others

    Learn new social skills and relational skills with family

    Develop self-efficacy and thus a better assuredness about their abilities

    ARE CHILDREN THE ONLY


    DEMOGRAPHIC WHO CAN
    BENEFIT FROM PLAY THERAPY?

    No, but clients usually seen in play therapy are children

    ranging from ages 3-12 years old. Teenagers and

    Adults have also benefited from play techniques and

    recreational processes.

    WHY CHOOSE PLAY


    THERAPY?

    In play therapy, toys are like the child's words and

    play is the child's language. Through play,

    therapists may help children learn more adaptive

    behaviors when there are emotional or social skills

    deficit.

    1. Association for Play Therapy. (n.d.). Play Therapy Makes a Difference. Retrieved from

    https://www.a4pt.org/page/PTMakes a difference/Play-Therapy-Makes-a-Difference.htm

    2. Carmichael, K. D. (2006). Play therapy: An introduction. Glenview, IL: Prentice Hall.

    COMPILED BY
    a. Landreth, G. L. (2002). Play therapy: The art of the relationship. New York, NY: Brunner-Ruttledge.

    3. Carmichael, K. D. (2006). Play therapy: An introduction. Glenview, IL: Prentice Hall.

    a. Gil, E. (1991). Healing power of play: Working with abused children. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

    ABIGAIL b. Landreth, G. L. (2002). Play therapy: The art of the relationship. New York, NY: Brunner-Ruttledge.

    c. Schaefer, C. E. (1993). The therapeutic power of play. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.

    FLORIANO 4. Pedro-Carroll, J., & Reddy, L. (2005). A preventive play intervention to foster children's resilience in the aftermath of

    divorce. In L. Reddy, T. Files-Hall, & C. Schaefer (Eds.),  Empirically based play interventions for children  (pp.51-75).

    SOURCE/S: Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

    a. Schaefer, C. E. (2003). Play therapy with adults. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

    5. Landreth, G. L. (2002). Play therapy: The art of the relationship. New York, NY: Brunner-Ruttledge.

    6. Pedro-Carroll, J., & Reddy, L. (2005). A preventive play intervention to foster children's resilience in the aftermath of

    divorce. In L. Reddy, T. Files-Hall, & C. Schaefer (Eds.),  Empirically based play interventions for children  (pp.51-75).

    Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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