PLAY THERAPY

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Paper: Essay
Style: Oxford
Pages: 18
Sources: 26
Level: Bachelor
Play Therapy
[Name of the Writer]
[Name of the Supervisor]
[Course]
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Introduction
The social acceptance of children with intellectual disabilities was studied by research
using socio-metric measures. In their review of research, Freeman and Alkin (2000) and
Siperstein, Norins and Mehler (2006) conclude that these children are generally less accepted
socially than their typically developing peers. As several Meta-analyses, it is also the case for
children with learning difficulties and more generally special needs (Nowicki, 2003). Research
shows that these children are rarely appointed as friends and preferred game partners by their
classmates (Kemp & Carter, 2002). These data suggest that social integration is even more of a
problem for this group of students as for typically developing children.
Play has played a pivotal role in the psychological, emotional and educational
development of children. Play is the natural way for children to know the world. It is well known
that young children know the world through play and creative experimentation. But to see them
grow up and want to prepare for the future, they are cloistered in the classroom and to fill them
with information away from the game are innate, also distancing them from their natural
instincts. Studies have shown that children's play is of particular importance in shaping the
character and habits of the child (Smilansky & Shefatya, 1990). Through play activities,
children develop their personalities and enrich their ties and social manifestations. The study and 
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observation of children's play is a valuable means of understanding the psychology of the child
and their development.
Bundy et al (2007) has shown that when intervention of play and socialization is applied
to children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), almost half of the children in the
experimental group (47%), that is to say those who received play therapy and intensive
socialization treatment (more than 40 hours per week), arrive at a level comparable to that of
their non-working peers with autism, allowing them to enter the formal education system without
the need for assistance and a gain of 30 IQ points on average, after three years of treatment.
Unlike children in the control group, which are themselves only 2% to achieve the same results.
Meanwhile, the other half of the experimental group had significant improvements. The study
included three groups of children who were diagnosed with autism independently by doctors or
psychologists. All children were under 4 years before starting treatment. This study has since
been widely criticized, but follow-up studies do when these same children were 12 years old
(Leong & Carter, 2008), or became adults confirmed that those in the experimental group had
maintained their gains without further intervention as opposed to subjects in the control group.
Other scientific research has confirmed the efficacy of this treatment for young children with
SPD (Anderson & Romanczyk, 1999), it allows them to improve the social, emotional,
educational and intellectual plan.
Case Study
This case study shows that the family violence does play an important role in the
psychological make-up of a child and his/her personality development. This case study also
shows that family violence is an important factor of brain disorder in children. 
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This is the story of a 6 years old boy Richard Townsend who lived with his father Tom.
Tom had divorced his wife and somehow managed to get Richard’s custody. Tom was the
foreman in Ford Motor Company and usually do not have much time to nurture Richard or to
solve his problems. Rather he tends to show rejecting and punitive parenting behavior when he is
in pressure and Richard has to share the strain of his job. Richard was continuously assaulted by
his father.
First, the boy tried to ignore this violence and then gradually started to show aggressive
and criminal attitudes despite, as I know, all the efforts of his teachers and friends. The mental
and physical abuses of his father were starting to affect his personality development. He also
experiences extreme difficulty in following instructions of the teachers at school and the
instructions of other children during play time and often fails to complete his everyday activities
or schoolwork. He also becomes much disorganized and usually has untidy room and school
desk. He also regularly loses his school stationery and notebooks and the things for play. He
loses things because he has problem sustaining attention and dislike tasks that require this skill
and will try to keep away from the school tasks. One of the major change appears in his
personality is distractibility, which indicates that he is frequently paying attention to irrelevant
happenings, outside noise, other children’