Play therapy is a therapeutic approach that involves using play and creative activities to help children process their thoughts, emotions, and experiences. This type of therapy has been used for decades and has been proven to be effective in helping children overcome a wide range of psychological and emotional issues.
Here’s why you should let children play and why you should consider play as part of a powerful toolkit for the full development of children and is as applicable to children with special learning needs. Play therapy allows people who are experiencing emotional or behavioural issues to open up their emotions in the safe space of the ‘playroom’, where they are allowed to face their thoughts and emotions nonverbally.
- Play allows children to learn how to develop a better sense of their abilities and gives them more confidence.
- Play allows children to develop creative problem solving abilities.
- Play allows children to learn about empathy and respect for feelings of others by giving them space to get in touch with their own thoughts and feelings.
The therapeutic process involved with play is different from normal play. Play Therapy is a structured method developed and guided by counsellors that build upon the natural way children learn about the world and their relationship to it (Axline, 1947; Carmichael, 2006; Landreth, 2002).
Play Therapy is cited as one of the most effective treatments for children suffering from trauma or PTSD.
Play Therapy is a structured method developed and guided by counsellors that build upon the natural way children learn about the world and their relationship to it
(Axline, 1947; Carmichael, 2006; Landreth, 2002).
PTUK’s Research has found Play Therapy to be an effective therapeutic approach for children.
College of Allied Educators offers the Postgraduate Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills. Awarded by the Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy, UK, (APAC), these programmes will allow students to further explore ways of integrating the child as the centre of a social system, which includes schools, families and a team of support. They will also introduce you to developmental practices, types of play therapy, legal frameworks, assessment, protection procedures and therapeutic interventions.
- POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN THERAPEUTIC PLAY SKILLS
The Certificate conferred is internationally recognised and will certify you as a Practitioner in Therapeutic Play Skills. - POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN THERAPEUTIC PLAY SKILLS
Awarded by the Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy, UK, (APAC), the Postgraduate Diploma in Play Therapy (PGDDPT) allows students to become certified Play Therapists upon completion.
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