Play Therapy

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Play Therapy
Both directive and non directive
Art Therapy
Parenting skills
Filial Play Therapy
Modeling to the parents as a secure base for Juan
Play therapy
Coping skills
Supportive
“Play therapy is a helping interaction
between a trained adult and a child that seeks to relieve the child’s emotional distress through the symbolic communication of play (Webb, 1999, p.30).” Through the interpersonal interactions with the therapist, the child experiences acceptance, catharsis, reduction of troublesome affects, redirection of impulses, and a corrective emotional experience. It is the therapist’s interventions and utilizations of the play that are critical

The primary purpose of play therapy is to help troubled children express their conflicts and anxieties through the medium of play in the context of a therapeutic relationship. Play therapy helps establish the treatment relationship, provides a medium for working through defenses and handling anxieties, assists in the verbalization of feelings and helps the child to act out unconscious material and relieve the accompanying tensions (p.32)\

Directive and Nondirective
Therapist-directed play therapy – Specific skills are being taught and/or emphasized such a sproblem-solving. Therapist chooses the toys, how they will be used, and for what length of time.




Filial Therapy
A major purpose of filial therapy is to strengthen parent-child relationships. Helps families to learn healthy interaction patterns and parenting skills that they can use as their relationships develop throughout their lives. It serves a preventive function by empowering families to strengthen themselves. VanFleet 1983, p.373


Art Therapy




Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches with a focus on positive thinking and active problem solving.

Weight problem
TV watching
Physical Activities
Special time with mom
Going to school


Parental Involvement
Parent education
Sett...