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How to Help Bereaved Children in Play Therapy
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Children feel grief deeply and their grieving process looks different depending on a variety of factors, including their age and developmental level.
How can play therapists help children navigate their grief in a way that is unique to their developmental needs in treatment?
Play therapy has become the “go-to” approach to help children heal.
This includes using play therapy to help children cope with their grief.
What are things play therapists can do to help bereaved children heal?
That’s what my guest, Liana Lowenstein, and I will be discussing in this episode.
Liana is an accomplished author of several play therapy books, including her two books focused on helping play therapists work with bereaved children: Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children, 2nd Ed, and Cory Helps Kids Cope with Grief.
Join me for this free weekly Podcast, Liana and I will be discussing how to recognize grief and children and play therapy strategies to help them cope with grief.
Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.
Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work.
I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.
Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills
Chapters
1. How to Help Bereaved Children in Play Therapy (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:01)
3. Guest introduction - Lianna Lowensten, MSW, RSW, CPT-S (00:00:53)
4. Today's topic (00:02:15)
5. 1st guideline when working with bereaved children (00:06:01)
6. 2nd guideline when working with bereaved children (00:10:20)
7. 3rd guideline when working with bereaved children (00:12:37)
8. Therapeutic Activities to Address Grief (00:16:26)
9. Resources (00:36:39)
10. Outro (00:42:37)
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