By Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S
It is impossible to avoid ups and downs in our lives. Feeling sad, angry and frustrated towards disappointments are normal part of human experiences. We often use the word “depressed”, yet, what does it mean when someone is clinically depressed?
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By Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S
What is Play Therapy?
Parents often ask what play therapy is and how play therapy can help dealing with their children’s behavioral and emotional problems. Play Therapy differs from regular play as well as regular “talk therapy”. When it comes to counselling children, the method we use is play therapy instead of talk therapy. Children are too young to articulate the intensity of their struggles with words. Therefore, “Play” will be the words and the medium for children to communicate their feelings and struggles at hand. With the use of selected materials & toys, and in a safe environment with necessary limits; the trained play therapist supports children to work through their struggles with their inner potentials and resources.
“Temporary separation” refers to the period of time where a caregiver is to be absent or unavailable for any duration of time, perhaps due to illness, work, or temporary foster care.
Although children may not act out behaviourally to the separation, there are certainly emotional reactions occurring within the child:
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