Inspired.Wales play therapy and children’s well-being

The festival of Easter symbolises new beginnings and new life.

In Play Therapy, we enable the children to develop new skills and coping mechanisms.
Using these skills they are seemingly able to start anew.

Join us in celebrating . Let's recognise the beauty and strength in our diverse minds.

Play Therapy empowers neurodiverse children to develop social skills, regulate emotions, and build confidence in a playful, accepting environment.

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Happy St.David’s Day 🌼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

On , we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate all our wonderful Welsh ® and all the amazing work they do supporting families and children through play therapy.

Day 5 of , we turn our attention to the profound impact of play therapy. This therapeutic modality serves as a conduit for children to articulate their thoughts and emotions, reinforcing the empowering truth - 'My Voice Matters'.

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Fantastic guidance by Maggie Fearn who was one of my tutors whilst training at University. This is aimed at play workers and provides an overview of the therapeutic powers of play. Great resource for parents and carers too.

🎈Happy International Play Therapy Week (4-10 February)

We’re celebrating by sharing our info sheet on the therapeutic powers of play.

Written by Maggie Fearn, it explores how playworkers can use the therapeutic benefits of play in their own settings to support children.

👉 https://play.wales/publications_category/accessing-the-therapeutic-powers-of-play-a-guide-for-playworkers/

International play therapy week where we celebrate the therapeutic powers of play across the globe 🎉🌍

Today marks the start of .

Child-centred play therapy provides a non-directive creative safe space where children can express an work through their difficulties using their natural language of communication play.

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Sand play can be so therapeutic. A lovely summary “…. transposed from the inner world to the outer world and made visible”.

Sand is a great way for children to play out different problems. Worries and fears can be expressed through telling stories in the sand which makes how they are feeling on the inside more visible.

Happy Christmas Day

This year's will cover the benefits of .

Day 25: Holistic Well-being
Child-centred play therapy addresses emotional, social, and psychological aspects, promoting holistic well-being and laying the foundation for a balanced and healthy life

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Seasons greetings everyone.

Christmas time can be a joyful time of year but can also be a very challenging and hard time for some. There will always be support available and a listening ear if needed from some wonderful services (see comments). Extending my thanks to these services and people offering support during this time of year.

BAPT sharing some wonderful insights about the benefits of child centred play therapy.

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Day 3: Communication Skills

Through the diverse forms of play, children learn to articulate their thoughts and feelings, paving the way for improved communication both at home and in school

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Feeling very inspired following attending Child Parent Relationship Training over the past two days and meeting some wonderful play therapists. I’m looking forward to being able to facilitate this therapeutic training myself in the near future. Thank you to Lisa and Louise for delivering this training. Details of the course I attended below ⬇️

In play therapy, the play therapist will follow a child’s assent, they will track and paraphrase as the play unfolds. The therapist is letting the child know - I hear you, I see you, you matter.

Raised Good 💕

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I am an advocate for children’s play and enhancing opportunities for children. Play Wales have some fantastic videos that discuss more about the importance of play. Their play principles describe play beautifully. Play is a process that is freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated. How accurate. This is a concept that play therapists understand greatly and why we believe play is so powerful.

Although not about play therapy specifically, Play Wales videos are very informative about play and children’s right to play. See link below.

It’s and today we’re sharing our Playwork Essentials videos – a playlist of short videos to support your learning. Topics include:

🎥 The United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child
🎥 The Playwork Principles
🎥 Reflective Practice
🎥 Loose Parts Play

👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9oaAkGVMR6379nvMZIrDffOYkD3iEvEn

Today is Youth Mental Health Day.
There are so many incredible services supporting children and young people and I will share some that I am aware of below. Please feel free to add to this list.

Play Therapists are mental health professionals. You can find a local Play therapist/Creative Arts Therapist by searching the British Association of Play Therapists directory on the BAPT website

Youth mental health day helps young people to understand, recognise and take action around their own mental health. Creating awareness that can support them all year through. Play therapy is a creative way to help young people build self awareness, self confidence, self esteem, self expression, resilience and emotional intelligence around their own needs, mental health and strategies to support them.

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A wonderful play therapist in Pembs if anyone is looking for support in that area. Take a look 👇

Play therapy spaces available, please get in touch via messenger or email [email protected]. Further details can be found at www.pembsplaytherapy.com.

A great website from the British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT)

Exciting times…The day has come to launch our new BAPT website 🎉
https://www.bapt.info/
Updated to fullfill our potential as an online presence supporting mental health of children and families. A user friendly site with information for potential clients, parents, professionals and BAPT members 🤩 This is phase one of our new website, please take a look and tell us what you think.
Thank you for supporting BAPT


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Happy Play Day. I hope you all get to do something playful and adventurous today.

Today marks , as Play Therapists we understand the power of play.

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BAPT (British Association of Play Therapists) Play Therapists are trained at Masters level undertaking a robust training programme and clinical practice hours and accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

I am so excited to begin the very early stages of developing my web page as a Play Therapist and Therapeutic Life Story Work practitioner. .Wales

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This is so simply put yet so powerful.

"Feeling safe is the treatment and creating safety is the work." 💕 - Stephen Porges

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It’s great that children’s views are being sought for this survey

🗣Do you work with children or young people?…

Help spread the word about the survey – a chance for children to have their say about play and tell international leaders how they can make the world more playful.

The closing date to complete this short, anonymous survey is 6 July 2023.

👉 https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=SS_dSaSEWkyYX4EdgTA6_UBiDLrnFupFu1Dlp8JMVudUQVhXUEVUQzc0UE9QRTQ1UDJPTTc4NUs3Ui4u&web=1&wdLOR=cEF90D363-F50E-430E-86BB-4954A1CC54D9

Young minds is a really good resource for young people and also for parents/carers. Young people can access resources on many topics around supporting emotional wellbeing.

Play therapy is always child centred whether taking a non directive or integrative approach.

Hope away from home. Please see useful links below.

Play Therapy has been shown to be a wonderful tool/way of working for children who have been traumatised by the journey away from their home country to a promised place of safety. Play Therapists can be found working with refugee and asylum-seeking children and for more info we recommend (refugee council/children in need).

https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/ or https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/

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Play therapy provides the safety and acceptance for children to feel able to bring all types of play into the playroom. Even though to some it may look busy, messy or chaotic. It may form part of the therapeutic growth for children.
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Today marks the first day of Mental Health Awareness Week, Play Therapy can help children play out their anxieties, which helps them process the scary feelings so that they lose their power.

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