Midlands Play
Therapy
'Helping
Things Get Better'
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What is Play Therapy?
Play
is a natural and spontaneous way of communicating for children. When children
are troubled or distressed or have experienced harm that has affected their
emotional and social development Play Therapy can help.
In
the Play Therapy process children experience a relationship with the therapist
that enables them to express, explore and make sense of difficult and painful
experiences and deal with what is worrying them. Resolving these difficulties
leads increased resilience and improved relationships. When children are less
stressed they learn better and their quality of life improves.
Play
Therapy is currently defined by BAPT as:
“...the dynamic process between child and Play
Therapist in which the child
explores at his or her own pace and with his or her
own agenda those issues,
past and current, conscious and unconscious, that are
affecting the child's life
in the present. The child's inner resources are
enabled by the therapeutic
alliance to bring about growth and change. Play
Therapy is child-centred, in
which play is the primary medium and speech is the
secondary medium.”
What do Play Therapists do?
Play
therapists work with children and young people who are experiencing
psychological difficulties and complex life experiences. Psychological
difficulties include depression, anxiety, aggression, learning difficulties and
ADHD. Difficult life experiences include abuse, grief, family breakdown,
domestic violence and trauma.
The
Play Therapy process helps the child to challenge and master the distress they
are experiencing and to increase resiliency, coping and ability to express
their feelings.
Play
therapists work closely with the child's parents/carers and can offer
parent-child relationship interventions.
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