Play is the primary way in which children learn about the world, express themselves, and develop their physical, social, cognitive and emotional skills.
Play is as natural as breathing for children. It is children's universal form of expression and can transcend effective differences of origin, language and other cultures. (Drewes, 2006).
Play has such an important place in the child's life that it is supported by article 31.1 of the United Nations 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. This article “recognizes the child's right to rest and spend free time, to engage in age-appropriate games and entertainment activities, and to participate freely in cultural and artistic life.
Play also supports and contributes to the child's mental, cognitive, physiological and psychological development. is available. By playing games, one learns and acquires new skills. The ability to express oneself verbally develops. It also helps in individualization and socialization processes.
Filial Therapy?
Strengthening Family Relationships with the Power of Play.
Filial therapy offers a solution that fully involves parents, helps them make more permanent changes, and better ensures the child's continued progress. FT is first and foremost a type of family therapy, but it relies heavily on the power of play to strengthen the parent-child relationship, solve problems, and encourage positive psychological development for the future (Vanfleet, 1994)
Filial therapists treat parents as primary care for their families. involves the process as a subject of change. This begins with training and supervising parents to conduct private, undirected play sessions with each of their children.
Session times vary between 10 and 20 sessions and depend on the child's and family's processes.
Filial Therapy is a theoretical integrative approach that benefits from the contributions of pioneers of such orientations as humanistic, psychodynamic, behavioral, interpersonal, cognitive, family systems, developmental/attachment theory and social psychology.
The Therapeutic Powers of Play
Overcoming Resistance
With Communication
Clinical and Developmental Competence
Creative Thinking
Catharsis and Emotional Release
Role play, Fantasy, Metaphor
Attachment Formation and Relationship Development
Enjoyment
Play Therapy Room Toys
Just as play is a way for children to express themselves, toys are actually Children also have their own language, and we can say that children's way of expressing themselves in each game is their language, if the toys they play with are their language.
Toys that reflect daily life
Baby ( feeding bottle, bed, cover, clothes)
Mother-father, girl-boy, grandmother, grandfather figures
Authority figures; police, soldiers, etc.
Playhouse and household items (kitchen, table, chair, food)
Kitchen supplies (fork, spoon, knife, glass, etc.)
Telephone
Puppets (animals; wild-domestic, human figures)
Animals
Trains and planes
Cars
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Soft ball
Repair tools
Costumes
Legos, puzzles
Cubes to make a tower
Pencils, paints, paper
Play dough and finger paints
Board games
Sand and water
Toy money
Sandbag
Picture books
Musical instruments
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