The use of play therapy with adolescents in high school.

Breen, Dorothy Tysse; Daigneault, Susan Dahlgren

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“…Play therapy is currently applicable to all age groups. Play therapy can be practiced in the form of sand therapy (Doyle & Magor-Blatch, 2017; Taylor, 2009), expressive therapy, also known as art or music therapy (Carmichael & Atchison, 1997), and puppet play (Hartwig, 2014) by using simple toys, games, and art supplies (Breen & Daigneault, 1998). Group play therapy has also proven to enhance difficult emotional expression, especially in adolescents (Perryman et al, 2015).…”

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“…Play therapy allows younger adolescents and children to express their emotions, while understanding the traumatic event in their own time (Green, 2008). Practitioners are incorporating play therapy into their works with adolescents, in order to more adequately build rapport and trust from emotionally damaged adolescents (Breen & Daigneault, 1998; Perryman et al, 2015; Riley, 2001).…”

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Therapeutic Practices for Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents: Resources for Marriage, Family, and Couples’ Counselors

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Marriage, family, and couple counselors should be educated in various treatment options for sexually abused adolescents, due to the frequency, and severity of this form of abuse. The long-term effects of sexual abuse can be devastating for victims. Posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression are potential issues resulting from sexual abuse. The present review analyzes three different therapeutic approaches family counselors may use for working with sexually abused children and adolescents. These approaches include trauma-focused-cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy and expressive art therapy, eye movement and desensitization, and reprocessing therapy. Implications for family, marriage, and couples’ counselors are provided recommendations as well for future research.

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Therapeutic Practices for Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents: Resources for Marriage, Family, and Couples’ Counselors

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“…Many play therapists practise from a client‐centred theoretical perspective, which emphasises the child's innate capacity for self‐healing, the therapist's warmth and acceptance for the child, creation of conditions of free expression for the child, respect for the child's problem‐solving capacities and non‐directiveness . Although adolescents often prefer talk therapy (which may have a psychodynamic, client‐centred or other theoretical orientation), play therapy can be used with this age group . CBT is based on the assumption that thoughts affect feelings and behaviour, and emphasises directly changing cognitions through teaching children coping skills, promoting their self‐control and enhancing their self‐efficacy, with the child's active participation …”

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Evidence‐based child and adolescent psychotherapy: It's not what you think

Golding

2016

J Paediatrics Child Health

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In clinical practice, I have often encountered the supposition that evidence-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents is synonymous with cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). 1 CBT is commonly thought to be more effective than other forms of treatment for young people, such as psychodynamic or play therapy, 2,3 and is often described as 'the treatment of choice' for youth, 4 with other therapies seen as lacking an evidence base. 1 A scientific approach to choosing treatment requires that we examine our assumptions and their empirical basis. In this article, I question the assumption of CBT's superiority and briefly review the empirical data on the efficacy of play therapy and psychodynamic therapy with young people. I then address considerations in choosing therapies that are likely to be most helpful.Psychotherapies for children and adolescents are based on a wide range of theoretical orientations. I focus here on psychodynamic (psychoanalytic), client-centred and CBT approaches. Psychodynamic therapy is distinguished by its exploration of emotions, fantasy and efforts to avoid distressing feelings; identification of patterns of experience; developmental focus; and focus on relationships, including the therapeutic alliance. 5 In psychodynamic play therapy, play is seen as the child's natural form of communication and essentially takes the place of adult patients' verbalisations. 6 Many play therapists practise from a client-centred theoretical perspective, which emphasises the child's innate capacity for self-healing, the therapist's warmth and acceptance for the child, creation of conditions of free expression for the child, respect for the child's problem-solving capacities and non-directiveness. 7 Although adolescents often prefer talk therapy (which may have a psychodynamic, client-centred or other theoretical orientation), play therapy can be used with this age group. 8,9 CBT is based on the assumption that thoughts affect feelings and behaviour, and emphasises directly changing cognitions 10 through teaching children coping skills, promoting their self-control and enhancing their self-efficacy, with the child's active participation. 11Despite CBT's popularity, for three decades, meta-analyses have demonstrated that play therapy is effective for a wide range of childhood mental health problems. [12][13][14][15] In four meta-analyses, weighted mean effect sizes for play therapy range from 0.65 to 0.80 over 42 to 94 studies, [12][13][14][15] representing moderately large to large effects. 16 Fully three-quarters of children treated with play therapy are better off than the average untreated child, paralleling findings in adult psychotherapy. 17 Likewise, a meta-analysis of 11 studies of short-term (40 visits or less) psychodynamic treatment for youth indicates a large effect (weighted mean g = 1.07), 18 consistent with a qualitative literature review that documents psychodynamics psychotherapy's effectiveness for children and teens, 19 as have more recent studies with children 20 and adolescents. 21 The ...

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“…The play therapy techniques used in filial work have been adapted for use with adolescents in the past (Breen & Daigneault, 1998; Brown, 2010; Wilson & Ryan, 2002) and specifically to adolescents in foster care (Cabe, 2005). Typically, when children engage in play therapy, they do so in a playroom.…”

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Strengthening Foster Parent–Adolescent Relationships Through Filial Therapy

Capps

2012

The Family Journal

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The purpose of this article is to explore the application of filial therapy as a means of strengthening relationships between foster parents and adolescent foster children. Adolescents in foster care experience a number of placement disruptions and while a number of therapeutic interventions are implemented to assist adolescents in foster care, very few are aimed at strengthening the foster parent–foster child bond. Studies have repeatedly shown filial therapy as an effective method for strengthening parent–child relationships. Filial therapy is discussed as an intervention for improving the relationship between adolescents in foster care and their foster parents. A review of the literature is presented as well as a description of filial therapy and the adaptations necessary to implement filial therapy with adolescents and their foster parents.

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The use of play therapy with adolescents in high school.

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Therapeutic Practices for Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents: Resources for Marriage, Family, and Couples’ Counselors

Therapeutic Practices for Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents: Resources for Marriage, Family, and Couples’ Counselors

Evidence‐based child and adolescent psychotherapy: It's not what you think

Strengthening Foster Parent–Adolescent Relationships Through Filial Therapy

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