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Kidspace
Child Centered:
Children learn to express themselves through play
Adlerian:
emphasizes the child's life goals and motivations. Therapist uses play to identify and address underlying conflicts or patterns that may be hindering their development
Cognitive Behavioral
Play: Focuses on identifying and modifying negative thoughts and behaviors that contribute to emotional difficulties.
Directive Play:
Therapist takes a more active role in guiding and structuring the play activities. Used to teach specific skills, reinforce positive behaviors, or address particular challenges.
Gestalt:
Emphasizes the present moment and the child's awareness of their experiences. Therapist uses play to help children integrate their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Filial:
Involves the child's parents or caregivers in the therapeutic process. Therapist trains them to use play to improve their relationship with the child and enhance their parenting skills.
Art:
Combines play therapy with art therapy techniques.Children use art materials to express their emotions and process experiences.
Sand:
Uses sand as a medium for symbolic expression.Children create scenes and stories that reflect their inner world and unresolved conflicts.
Gestalt:
Emphasizes the present moment and the child's awareness of their experiences. Therapist uses play to help children integrate their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Dance:
A form of psychotherapy that uses dance and movement to improve emotional, psychological, and physical well-being
Equine:
A form of experiential therapy that utilizes horses to promote physical, emotional, and cognitive well-being.
Authoritative
Authoritative parenting is often considered the ideal style for its combination of warmth and flexibility while still making it clear that the parents are in charge.
Permissive
Permissive parents have low expectations and use discipline sparingly. Permissive parents let children make their own choices, but also bail them out if it doesn’t go well.
Authoritarian
Uses strict rules, high standards and punishment to regulate the child’s behavior. Authoritarian parents have high expectations and are not flexible on them.
Uninvolved
Fulfill the child’s basic needs, but then pay little attention to the child. These parents tend to offer minimal nurturing and have few expectations or limitations for their child.
Parenting with
Children learn the best lessons when they're given a task and allowed to make their own choices (and fail) when the cost of failure is still small. Children's failures must be coupled with love and empathy from their parents and teachers.
Shared control:
Parents give away control they don't need, which can lead to more control overall.
Shared decision
making: Parents give children opportunities to think and make decisions.
Empathy before consequences:
Parents follow through with empathy and actions instead of anger, threats, or lectures.
Respect:
Parents treat children with respect so they can learn how to treat others.
Play Therapy
Parenting Styles:
Principles
Enforceable
statements: Parents set clear limits using statements that can be enforced.
Techniques
Allowing children to make choices:
Parents allow children to make choices and fail, but provide love and empathy when they do.
Describing what's allowed:
Parents describe what they're willing to allow without telling children what to do.
Facilities
Contact:
Laura Milisavljevich
(614) 506-3789
Books
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