Our children need to share their feelings with us, their parents. However, in today's conditions, parents from all socio-economic levels are in a
effort and rush to achieve their living standards. According to research, the amount of time a mother can spend quality one-on-one time with her child is 2 minutes a day; The time a father spends with his child is limited to only 50
seconds a day. Unfortunately, when the situation is like this, children have an emotional
hunger waiting to be satisfied. Filial Therapy is an educational program that guides parents to strengthen their relationships with their children through play. Our parenting styles largely shape and cause our children, our miracles sent to us by God, to be angry,
aggressive, introverted, insecure, stubborn….
Filial Therapy, It is a psycho-educational approach that aims to solve family problems related to the child and strengthen the family relationship by integrating play therapy and family therapy. The therapist teaches parents how to apply child-centered play therapy skills in play sessions with their
children. Since it aims to increase openness and trust in the relationship between parent and child,
it is a therapy program that is both preventive and helps solve the problem if there is one.
With Filial Therapy, parents can tell their children, "I'm here, I hear you, you." They convey the message
I understand.
Filial Therapy, which is a part of Client-Centered Play therapy, of which Gary Landerth is the theorist, helps families help their children gain 'limit setting' skills, so that the child can make choices and
helps them gain the ability to take responsibility, regardless of the outcome of this choice.
We can protect our assets that we avoid from all evil in the first years when we can keep them within our own security circle, but what about later?! When you reach high school age, when we can't see it!? Will we be able to be with you at all times? We may be greeted with an invitation from any of our children, such as 'Come look
smell this powder, it's fun.' How many minutes does it take to pass and trial period? If
we can teach our precious children to take responsibility with limits and options, our child can make the right choice with his own internal
control, even when we are not around.
Main Problems Where Filial Play Therapy Method is Effective
Anxiety. , depression, behavioral problems, single parenting, aggression, anger outbursts, nail biting,
encopresis (fecal incontinence), bedwetting (enuresis), sibling jealousy, adoption, trauma, relationship and
attachment problems, introversion, self-confidence problems, etc. It helps the family with problems such as. Research conducted over a period of more than 40 years shows that filial therapy, which is a short-term therapeutic approach, has a long-term effect on the child and family. 2-10.
Process:
Play Therapy is a therapy technique that lasts 45 minutes and is performed with a single child. Filial Therapy Technique is a therapy technique that can be given to the parents of an average of 8-9 children in a single
session. The session duration of Filial Therapy is 90 minutes. This therapy technique is a method developed for the children of families with low economic levels who cannot receive one-on-one play therapy in the United States, and it is a method in which the techniques applied by the therapist to the child in play therapy are partially taught to the parents. We meet with parents once a week under the leadership of a therapist. In filial therapy, parents play games with their child for 30 minutes once a week in line with the therapist's teachings, and evaluations are made by watching this game time recorded on camera. During this 10-week period, where parents meet once a week, they
correct their mistakes and improve themselves in communicating effectively with their children.
List of Necessary Toys in the Therapy Process
-doll family
-real feeding bottle
-pacifier
-doctor's bag, stethoscope, band-aid…
-two toy phones
-doll house
-toy money, coin, credit card (toy),
-plastic animals (cow, butterfly, bird, dog, cat, lamb..)
-plastic aggressive animals (shark, snake, lion, dinosaur-must have open mouth)< br /> -police vehicle, it bus, ambulance, truck, fire brigade, plane, automobile... from realistic models)
-kitchen plate materials,
-toy make-up items, buckles, jewelry, etc..
-plastic fruit vegetables,
-various puppets,
-toy soldiers
-hacıyatmaz
-mask
-plastic police handcuffs
-one piece of play dough
-eight color crayons
-Blank paper
-soft ball
-toy repair materials
-a gun that shoots darts you can have several
-jumping rope< br /> -plastic knife
-blunt-tipped scissors
-puppet stage
-80*80cm sized 30cm high sand-filled sandbox.
-child-sized table and two chairs
- shelves where these toys can be lined up.
Note: In the room where the toys are located, the parent will play with his or her child for 30 minutes every week.
While the parent is playing with his child, the group should watch from another room at the same time. Camera and TV arrangement
must be established.
Therapy application can begin with the supply of materials and the arrangement of the therapy environment.
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