In conjunction with child and adolescent therapy, a large part of my practice is spent with parents and caregivers
using filial therapy, which educates and empowers parents to take an active role in addressing their children's needs through the strength of the parent - child relationship.
Not exact matches
Chris
uses filial (play)
therapy modalities to help parents become change agents in the lives of their children.
Because
filial play
therapy is a developmentally attuned way of communicating and understanding one's child, it can be
used with nearly all child problems.
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.
As a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW - C) and nationally registered play therapist (RPT), I have practical experience
using play
therapy,
filial therapy, self - expression through art, sand tray and other methods.»
Where the term «
therapy» is
used, it refers to work done by individual and organisational practitioner members in the field of therapeutic play, play
therapy,
filial play, creative arts
therapies, child counselling and child psychotherapy.
PTI's role is to encourage the
use of play
therapy and
filial play and the commissioning of services in all countries.
Filial therapy may be
used to teach empathetic parenting skills over time (Winek et al., 2003).
Filial therapy is a unique approach
used by professionals trained in play
therapy to train parents to be therapeutic helpers with their own child (ren) at home.
Filial therapy provides caregivers (typically parents) with training in basic play
therapy techniques so they can
use these techniques with their own children.
Filial therapy was initially designed to treat children experiencing social, emotional, or behavioral concerns and is
used today to treat a wide range of childhood issues, such as:
Since the late 1980s, Garry Landreth has helped to expand the
use of
filial therapy by adapting the original model to account for time constraints and limited resources.
Filial therapy may also be effective in the prevention of future difficulties, as it addresses problems within the family system and gives parents tools they can
use to more effectively respond to their children.
She is trained in child - parent relationship
therapy (CPRT), a
filial parenting model
used to enhance the parent - child relationship while empowering the parent with knowledge and skills to affect positive change in his or her child.
Promote the
use of play, creative arts
therapies and
filial coaching as ways of enabling children to reach their full potential by alleviating social, emotional, behaviour and mental health problems and improve child / parent relationships, where they are deficient;
The latent need for practitioners
using therapeutic play,
filial play, creative arts and play
therapy skills varies from country to according to:
With the growth of play
therapy, play work,
filial play and the
use of therapeutic play skills there is widespread confusion about the roles of each and the skills required to be a proficient practitioner.
It is also applicable to play
therapy and
filial play research, the
use of therapeutic play skills and the management of the delivery of these services within organisations.
These are autonomous organisations representing and governing the
use of play
therapy and
filial play in their own countries.
Given the strong empirical support for adaptations of
filial models, including Child - Parent Relationship
Therapy (CPRT)(Landreth & Bratton, 2006) for
use with teachers, teacher's aides, and even high school students, I decided to adapt Landreth & Bratton's CPRT 10 session model for
use with senior citizen volunteers.