Using a similar approach —
the filial play therapy model — that helped families traumatized by Hurricane Katrina, the researchers worked with six parents living at a homeless shelter in the Fox Valley.
Not exact matches
A review of the main
filial play /
therapy models to enable you to develop the approach that suits you best.
Filial therapy is a structured and time - limited training
model in which parents of young children are trained in
play therapy skills, similarly to how therapists are taught in graduate school, with the goal of empowering parents and caregivers to be the change agent for their child instead of having to rely on an «expert» to «fix» whatever their child's struggle or problem.
In the original Guerney
model of
filial therapy, parents attended training for an average of 12 months while simultaneously conducting weekly
play therapy sessions with their children.
I draw upon multiple theories to include:
play and
filial therapy for children, dialectical behavior
therapy (DBT), systems and structural theory for families, imago and Gottman theory for couples, a variety of addiction recovery
models, depth psychotherapy, narrative
therapy, psychodevelopmental psychology, inner child work and spiritual direction.