Play therapy is real therapy conducted in the medium of play. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology ... to puppets, to stuffed animals, to masks and costumes, to sand play, and more.

Play therapy uses activities and materials (such as clay, blocks, puppets, action figures, dolls, finger paint, or other art supplies and toys) that allow a child to express themselves.

Screens are everywhere. While many adults push for screen-free spaces, what if some screen time could actually support your ...

Play therapy is a method of therapy that uses play to uncover and deal with psychological issues. It can be used on its own, particularly with children, or along with other therapies and medications.

Play therapy can help children develop social connections, foster independence, and learn creative thinking. ... using puppets, playing board games, telling stories, and more.

In Ireland too, puppets are used for both education and therapy. Helene Hugel runs the Puppet Portal Project, a programme which brings puppetry to paediatric hospital settings.

Play is the language of children — which is why play therapy can help kids speak the unspeakable. By Dani McClain Dee Ray doesn’t learn how children feel by listening to their words. Ray, a ...

CHILDREN at Kangaroo Flat Primary School were joined by two almost life-sized puppets last week.The puppets visited the school as part of the McDonald’s Camp Quality Puppets program. The 45 ...

Sometimes it takes a puppet. Marge Schneider calls herself the Puppet Lady and she is slowly changing the way a state hospice program orchestrates therapy. Over the course of 20 years, she and her ...

Oct. 31—University of Texas Permian Basin's Counseling Department is offering a play therapy certificate that began this fall. UTPB Assistant Professor of Counseling Cynthia Anderson said the ...