Trained mental health practitioners use play therapy to assess and understand children's play. Play therapy helps children cope with difficult emotions and allows the child to find solutions to their problems. Play therapists confront problems in the playroom, which allows children to find healthier solutions in a non-threatening manner. Play therapy helps children change the way they think, feel, and resolve concerns. In the playroom the most troubling problems can be safely confronted and lasting resolutions can be discovered, rehearsed, and mastered.
(This information was adapted from the Association for Play Therapy's brochure, "Why Play Therapy".)
