This study examines the effect of play therapy on a child living in kinship care following the death of his parents in infancy. The main…
Adolescents make decisions and react to the world in a turbo-charged process, based on emotion and quickly-changing brain connections, not logic and experience. Young people…
This study explores adult perceptions of messy play and its role in pre-school children?s psychological development. Mothers (N= 5) and early years practitioners (N =…
This study investigates the over-parenting of children in Bangkok and considers how findings might be relevant to play therapists. Research involved a mixed methods approach,…
This research investigates whether the playful use of natural materials and clay during nondirective play therapy sessions has an effect on children’s self-esteem. As is…
Current best practice therapeutic intervention for traumatised children is based on the trauma paradigm. However, there is little published research that examines the efficacy of…
Piritual wellbeing and the development of children’s spirituality are included within the holistic document of the United Nations Rights of the Child. The World Health…
This study aims to evaluate the effect of ten individual non-directive play therapy sessions on behaviour associated with separation anxiety in a sample of school-aged…
The United Arab Emirates is situated in the Arabian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia. It is a federation of seven independent emirates, formed in…