Play Therapy

Play Therapy

 Regardless of the age, the game has numerous benefits in an individual's life. The game is creative, fun, educational, gives new skills, encourages socialization and communication. When children play games, they recognize their feelings and thoughts and learn to express and organize them. Children, who are not as successful as adults in expressing their feelings and thoughts, have the opportunity to express themselves through play. While adults communicate by talking, the way children communicate is through play.

What is Play Therapy? 

    According to the definition of the play therapy association; ‘ trained play therapists systematically use an institutional model to establish an interpersonal process in which clients benefit from the therapeutic power of play in order to prevent or help them Decipher psychosocial problems and achieve ideal growth and development." Play Therapy is an interpersonal process that takes advantage of the therapeutic power of play. Play therapists strive to recognize, accept and use the therapeutic power of play.

Play therapists help children to get out the problems they are experiencing, their feelings and thoughts through play. 

The role of the therapist is to encourage the child to express his feelings in appropriate ways and to give the child a ‘sense of control’ and ‘self-awareness’ through the therapeutic relationship. Sometimes therapists can structure the therapy process by adhering to the specified needs of the child.

When to Apply for Play Therapy? 

 Play therapy is usually applied to many problems that arise in children between the ages of 3 and 12. Anger management can be used in many areas such as depression, loss and bereavement, parental separation, traumatic life events, abuse, toilet problems, sibling jealousy, eating problems, lack of self-confidence, social skills problems, school initiation and adjustment problems.