Play therapy uses toys and symbolic play to help children express and process difficult emotions, fears, and experiences. During play therapy sessions, children are given toys and materials like dolls, paint, and sand to freely play with while being observed by the therapist. This allows the therapist to understand the child's perspective and thoughts through their symbolic play representations. Play therapy provides a safe environment where children can gain self-control and work through challenges by transferring them to manageable scenarios during creative play.
Play therapy uses toys and symbolic play to help children express and process difficult emotions, fears, and experiences. During play therapy sessions, children are given toys and materials like dolls, paint, and sand to freely play with while being observed by the therapist. This allows the therapist to understand the child's perspective and thoughts through their symbolic play representations. Play therapy provides a safe environment where children can gain self-control and work through challenges by transferring them to manageable scenarios during creative play.
Play therapy uses toys and symbolic play to help children express and process difficult emotions, fears, and experiences. During play therapy sessions, children are given toys and materials like dolls, paint, and sand to freely play with while being observed by the therapist. This allows the therapist to understand the child's perspective and thoughts through their symbolic play representations. Play therapy provides a safe environment where children can gain self-control and work through challenges by transferring them to manageable scenarios during creative play.
Play therapy uses toys and symbolic play to help children express and process difficult emotions, fears, and experiences. During play therapy sessions, children are given toys and materials like dolls, paint, and sand to freely play with while being observed by the therapist. This allows the therapist to understand the child's perspective and thoughts through their symbolic play representations. Play therapy provides a safe environment where children can gain self-control and work through challenges by transferring them to manageable scenarios during creative play.
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PLAY THERAPHY rule such as football, chess etc.
They can accept others opinion and
Rationale start to socialize with others. Children communicate their awareness of what is happening through their play. Play Therapy Technique Toys are viewed as childs words a) Toys & Materials and play as childs language. Dolls give an unthreatened Providing children with means of situations to child. expressing their inner thoughts. Through dolls playing, Emotionally significant experiences therapist get information on can be expressed more their thought, feeling and comfortably and safely. behavior. The use of toys enables children to b) Setting Limits transfer anxiety, fears, fantasies Facilitate child to learn self- and guilt. responsibility and self- The changing of what may be control. unmanageable in reality to Has minimal limits. manageable situations through Messiness is accepted, symbolic representations, which exploration is encouraged, provide children opportunities for and neatness is not learning to cope. required. Example: you would like to
Stages in Playing. pour paint on floor, but the
floor is not for pouring paint Toddler stage (0-2 years): uses on, the pan on the table is senses to play. Example : inserts the place. objects to his mouth/ copy other c) Sand Playing behavior that is always see such as Children are free to play waving hands, the uses of spoon. with sand. Childhood stage (2-7 years): they Throughout the play, started to imagine and plan their children decide what they activity by using their minds. will do, what figure that will Example: drama, role play, socio be used. drama. Through the observation of Late childhood stage (7-11 them playing with the sand, years): started to play things with therapist get the info on their feeling, thoughts and behavior.