Is Play Therapy Effective?
Many people wonder if play therapy is really effective. It can be difficult to understand how playing can help a child or a family with their desires. Play therapy is evidenced-based, and it is effective in helping children with a variety of goals, emotional difficulties, and behaviors.
The modalities within play therapy vary as greatly as the field of counseling. Play therapy emcompasses a variety of modalities. Child-centered play therapy, similar to client centered therapy for adults, recognizes the relationship between the therapist and child as the healing agent. The origins of child-centered play therapy date back to 1947 developed by Virgina Axline.
Play therapy truly is the way that children interact, grow, and change. It is an approach that is created for children and works for kids!
Find out more here from some of the key researchers on child centered play therapy.
Additional information sources on the research and study of play therapy.