Play Therapy

            
            
            
            
            
             Modeling to the parents as a secure base for Juan.
            
            
            
             "Play therapy is a helping interaction.
             between a trained adult and a child that seeks to relieve the child's emotional distress through the symbolic communication of play (Webb, 1999, p.30)." Through the interpersonal interactions with the therapist, the child experiences acceptance, catharsis, reduction of troublesome affects, redirection of impulses, and a corrective emotional experience. It is the therapist's interventions and utilizations of the play that are critical.
             The primary purpose of play therapy is to help troubled children express their conflicts and anxieties through the medium of play in the context of a therapeutic relationship. Play therapy helps establish the treatment relationship, provides a medium for working through defenses and handling anxieties, assists in the verbalization of feelings and helps the child to act out unconscious material and relieve the accompanying tensions (p.32).
             Directive and Nondirective.
             Therapist-directed play therapy - Specific skills are being taught and/or emphasized such a sproblem-solving. Therapist chooses the toys, how they will be used, and for what length of time.
             Filial Therapy.
             A major purpose of filial therapy is to strengthen parent-child relationships. Helps families to learn healthy interaction patterns and parenting skills that they can use as their relationships develop throughout their lives. It serves a preventive function by empowering families to strengthen themselves. VanFleet 1983, p.373.
             Art Therapy.
             Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches with a focus on positive thinking and active problem solving.
             Weight problem.
             TV watching .
             Physical Activities.
             Special time with mom.
             Going to school.
             Parental Involvement.
             Parent education.
             Setting limits.
             Children who have two secure attachment relationships fare better than those with two insecure attachments (Bretherton, Munholland, 1999). A secure attached infant, however, does not always become a secure child.