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When Might Play Therapy Be Appropriate?
Play Therapy might be suitable for a whole range of children and adolescents (3-16 years) who have emotionally-based problems of behaviour and adjustment, for example:
- attachment difficulties
- failure to thrive
- telling lies
- wetting, soiling, smearing
- eating disorders
- sleeping disorders
- psychosomatic problems
- immature behaviour and/or pseudomaturity
- inappropriate emotional responses
- elective/selective mutism
- undue withdrawal, temper tantrums, violent outbursts
- lack of affection, difficulties with relationships
- chaotic and messy, or unnaturally ‘fussy’
- self-harm, hurting animals or smaller children
- school refusal
- sexualised behaviour, sexual acting out
The child may have experienced or be experiencing the effects of:
- inadequate parenting
- a disrupted lifestyle
- a significant loss through death or family break-up
- a severe accident or illness
- physical disability
- developmental delay
- a family member with the disability or illness
- abuse and/or neglect
- other known or suspected trauma
For play therapy to go ahead, the child must have some current stability in their home life and a parent/carer who is willing to support the therapy.
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Connections Counselling Ltd (Registered in England: No.4361171)
8 Grafton Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 3HA, UK
Tel/Fax +44 (0)7050 694775/6
© Nina Rye 2001-2006
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