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The Role Of The Therapist:
* The therapist should become familiar with at least one directive and one non-directive form of play therapy.
* Directive play therapy for behavior type of therapeutic experience
* Non- directive for a child centered therapy
The Development of Family Play Therapy
* Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory = many of the founders were trained in psychoanalysis to work with children.
* Working only with children was not enough so they began counseling whole families.
* Included in the development of play therapy was
> Erik Erikson, Theory of Psychosocial stages;
> Jean Piaget, Theory of Cognitive Development
> Harry Stack Sullivan, Theory of interpersonal relationships role in personality development.
* Particularly in the past few decades family therapy and play therapy have merged.
The roles a therapist will take in family play therapy:
* Facilitator
* Role Model
* Participant
* Educator
Benefits
1. Assessing Play-Based Activities, Child Talk, and Single Session Outcome in Family Therapy with Young Children by D. Russell Crane, Amber B. Willis and Lynda H. Walters
2. If Your Mother Were an Animal, What Animal Would She Be? Creating Play-Stories in Family Therapy: The Animal Attribution Story-Telling Technique (AASTT) by Diana Arad
3. Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Play Therapy Techniques by Andrea K. Wittenborn, Anthony J. Faber, Ashley M. Harvey, and Volker K. Thomas
4. Play-Based Activities in Family Counseling by Joseph D. Wehrman and Julaine E. Field
5. Creative Family Therapy Techniques: Play and Art-Based Activities to Assess and Treat Families by Liana Lowenstein and Trudy Post Sprunk http://www.lianalowenstein.com/articleFamilyTherapy.pdf
6. Colored Candy Go Around - YouTube demonstration by Liana Lowenstein: 7. Pinterest ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/pamdyson/family-play-therapy/
8. Play in Family Therapy, 2nd ed. by Eliana Gil and Matthew D. Selekman
9. Mindfulness-Based Play-Family Therapy: Theory and Practice by Dottie Higgins-Klein
10. Family Play Therapy by Charles Schaefer and Lois Carey
Families of many kinds have been helped by Family Play Therapy, including single parent families, blended families, foster families and adoptive families.
This therapy can also be used as a treatment for parent/child relationship problems.
Introduction to Filial Therapy. (n.d.). Retrieved February 21, 2016, from http://www.filialtherapy.co.uk/
Children between the ages of 3 and 12 can best express their emotions, their motivations, their wishes and dreams through the language of play, especially when difficult issues are involved. Usually children under the age of 3 do not yet play imaginatively. Children over 12 are better able to express themselves verbally, although this therapy is often used with young teenagers if appropriate kinds of activities are used.
Growth Through Play Therapy Training Associates About Filial Therapy. (n.d.). Retrieved February 21, 2016, from http://www.growththroughplaytherapy.com/filial.html
Sample Dialogue:
Therapist: Hello Mr. and Mrs. Zork, Bobby, and Sally.
Thank you for coming. Today we are going to create a genogram.
Mrs. Zork: Isn’t that like a family tree?
Therapist: It’s a fun technique used to trace family patterns and history. See, here are some samples. We can draw one together here on this easel with these markers.
Bobby: Wow, can I choose some of the colors? Oh, and can I include my dog?
Therapist: Absolutely. As the family creates the genogram…
Mr. Zork: I guess my parents need to go on this side. I remember when they used to take me and my brothers camping every summer. We had so much fun.
Sally: Daddy, I wish you would take us camping.
Bobby: Yeah, I want to learn how to build a tent!
Mrs. Zork: Maybe we should plan a trip to Yosemite?
Therapist: That would be a great way to spend quality time together.
Family and Nurturance Toys: figurines, puppets, or dolls
figurine doll family (one for each member of family, at minimum)
house for doll family - can be a box, or even just a paper map of your house puppet family (people or animals)
baby doll
nurturing doll accessories: bottle, clothes,
kitchen dishes with play food
Aggression- related toys
Nerf gun with bullets
Foam hammer, foam bat
Military figurines (“army men”)
Aggressive animal figures, such as dragon, lion, wolf
Expressive Toys
art supplies: crayons, markers, chalk, white board, paper
Play-doh
Dress up: scarves, bandannas, magic wands, masks, hats, phones, mirror
Multi-use Toys
Medical kit: band aids, stethescope, ace bandage wrap, etc Deck of Cards
Play money
Bean bags
Reference:
Wickstrom, A. (2011, April 3). Family shield: A play therapy craft to make your family stronger! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co4IfUkXh
Reference:
Wehrman, J. D. & Field, J. E. (2013). Play-based activities in family counseling. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 41, 341-352. doi:10.1080/01926187.2012.704838
Puppets/Dolls
Sand Trays
Gil, E. (2015). Play in family therapy (2nd ed). New York, London: The Guilford Press
Landreth, G. L., (2012). Play therapy: the art of the relationship (3rd ed). New York: Taylor and Francis Group.
Lowenstein, L., & Post Spunk, T. (2010). Creative family therapy techniques: play and art-based activities to assess and treat families. Retrieved from: http://www.lianalowenstein.com/articleFamilyTherapy.pdf
O’Conor, K., Scheafer, C., & Braveman, L., (2016). Handbook of play therapy. New Jersey: Wiley and Sons.
Wehrman, J. D., & Field, J. E. (2013). Play-based activities in family counseling. American Journal Of Family Therapy, 41(4), 341-/01926187.2012.704838
Wickstrom, A. (2011, April 3). Family shield: A play therapy craft to make your family stronger! [Video file]. Retrieved from
Willis, A. B., Walters, L. H., & Crane, D. R. (2014). Assessing play-based activities, child talk, and single session outcome in family therapy with young children. Journal Of Marital & Family Therapy, 40(3), 287-301 15p. doi:10.1111/jmft.12048