Play Therapy Is Used As A Modality - 1398 Words

Play therapy was presented in class by Kallie Kraweitz, who was a guest speaker. Ms. Kraweitz is in the process of completing her online Education in Counseling and Play therapy from University of Mississippi. She is not an expert in the subject but she is currently in the program and she came to share some basic information that she has learned in her course work and also the experiences that she has acquired during her journey in the course. She defined play therapy as â€Å"the systematic use of theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapist use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychological difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development† ( Kallie Make a†¦show more content†¦When this is accomplished that is when the clinician is able to help their clients and find intervention that will help elevate the problem. In addition, this is a way that the clinician will establish a relation ship with their client. By so doing the clients will be able to establish trust with the clinician because without trust the client will not be comfortable to share deep information about what is going on with them but when they gain their trust, that is when the clinician will really get to know what is going on with their client. Still Alice is a movie that we watched in class. This movie is about a Harvard psychologist named Alice Howland who is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at the peak of her career. We notice some symptom of disorder when she is invited to speak at Stanford and she could not remember simple words during her presentation and also when she went to Los Angeles to visit her daughter Lydia, she becomes forgetful and when she returns home to Cambridge and she goes for a run and she forgets her way home and although she eventually remembers her way and she gets home. Alice does not think that she has Alzheimer, instead she thinks that maybe it is menopause so she decided to make an appointment with a doctor to find out what is going on with her. She does go to her appointment, the doctor does not really know what is going on with her she they request for an MRI to be performed on her and