Article: Approaches to play therapy: A tabular overview

Students and trainees often have questions regarding the contemporary approaches to play therapy, and many of these questions revolve around the similarities and differences between the various play therapy models. This article provides readers with a brief tabular overview of the following major approaches to play therapy: Adlerian, Child-centered, Cognitive-behavioral, Developmental, Existential, Ecosystemic, Gestalt, Jungian, and Psychoanalytic.

Play therapy developed as a tool for working with children when mental health professionals recognized that adult "talk therapy" was not practical for use with children. Anna Freud originally used play therapy as a way to apply the techniques of ...

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