Play Therapy Programme
Shut your eyes for a moment and think of a child's health. What images come to mind ? The child's diet, for sure. Is the child eating right, eating on time, eating enough fresh fruit and vegetables, drinking enough milk. You also probably think about the child's exercise routine. Swimming, yoga, aerobics, badminton …
The point is, most people think of health as physical health alone. But there is another aspect of health that is just as important. The child's emotional health. Especially in these times when there is so much pressure to succeed academically, peer pressure, so much media exposure and when dual income nuclear families leave little time for parent - child interaction.
WHAT IS PLAY THERAPEUTICS ?
Between ages 3 and 9, children need to be nurtured very carefully. In the absence of such nurturing, children subconsciously tend to draw attention to themselves by becoming overly withdrawn, violent, hyperactive, distracted, inactive, scared or angry. These children need a careful handling by an expert play therapist.
Play therapeutics is a method of therapy used to help children express their feelings. Play is a child's natural language and it permits the child to make sense of the world around him/her by communicating with adults symbolically and through his or her actions. Play gives a child a feeling of strength and power that adult controlled activities cannot offer.
Play therapy creates a setting and relationship where your child can express what he/she cannot say in words. Play therapy furthers children's natural development. It empowers children, enabling them to make decisions and cope with real life situations. It also allows them to use their natural abilities to develop in a beneficial way.
CHILDREN WHO MAY BENEFIT FROM PLAY THERAPY :
- # With behaviour that is immature for their age e.g. thumb sucking, bed wetting inappropriate to their age
- # With behaviour that interferes with his/her ability to learn or make friends ( such as aggression, withdrawal)
- # Who experience excessive anger, sadness or fears
- # Who suffering from stammer, stutter or other problems of expression due to emotional pressure
- # Who experiencing difficulty adjusting to family changes (such as divorce, separation or death)
- # Who experiencing and/or witnessing family violence, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
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