“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year conversation” – Plato

What is play therapy?

• A method of helping children with behavior, emotional, social and mental health      problems to help themselves
• Play is the chils’s natural medium of self expression – It’s essential for development
• Opportunity to ‘play out’ their feelings and problems with a therapeutic objective

Below is a list of very common emotional themes that trouble children.

• Feeling not wanted
• Feeling powerless or insignificant
• Feeling ‘unspecial’ unimportant or invisible
• Feelings of being the unfavoured one
• Feelings of not belonging
• Feeling not liked, or actively hated
• Feeling rubbished, abused, used
• Feelings of self-loathing
• Desperately wanting someone to like me or love me who doesn’t
• Feelings of needing someone too much
• Feeling lonely
• Feeling broken-hearted
• Feeling emotionally hungry
• Feeling lost
• Feeling empty inside
• Always needing to be in control
• Always anxious about something
• Feelings of fear about anything new or different
• Worrying that Mummy or Daddy might die or leave me
• Trying to ‘mend’ Mummy and Daddy because they are ill/depressed
• Feeling ‘I want to run away or hide’
• Living in fear of being bullied/bullied again
• Feeling that the world is basically a frightening place
• Feeling that no one or nothing is safe
• Feeling invaded or taken over
• Feeling contaminated
• Feeling uptight, angry or that I am sitting on a volcano
• Feeling of wanting to hit out, hurt or destroy
• Feeling that ‘It’s all too much’
• Feeling that I am trying to hold up the world
• Feeling a mess inside
• Feeling that ‘I am bad’
• Fear of being myself in case I damage someone
• Feeling ‘What is the point of anything?’

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