User:Nicolle.howard/Play therapy/Bibliography

Questions to think about: How efficient is play therapy? How much has play therapy changed over the years? Does parent/child play therapy help both the parent and the child?
The author uses data that was collected from several different people who observed and did a training with children for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). It goes over how stress can accumulate for a child when doing Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, but the stress also comes from the parent. When a child has treatment for what their behavior is, the parent’s stress decreases. Harsh parenting behaviors is what causes a child to have their clinical problems and have them act a way that their parent didn’t expect. The author goes over several ways that this can be fixed. This audience is for people who want to know more about Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and how it can be effective for both the child and parent.

The author sets an example of a single mom with her son and how she was in an abusive relationship. It goes over how the little boy could also have built up aggression from what his mom had experienced, so the therapist eases him into play therapy. Play therapy takes a while to ease into because the child could have emotional isolation and be traumatic for the child. It discusses how it can benefit both the parent and child to be connected on a deeper level. In comparison with the journal cited above, they both show examples of how the child and parent get closer along with both of their stress decreasing. They both share how a child needs more attention than being pushed away.

The authors use research data to explain what Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is and how speech and language therapy (SLT) is brought up in pre-school then with developmental language disorder (DLD). This journal stimulates how PCIT is beneficial for the parent and child by being able to communicate more to improve their language. This audience is more for parents who want to improve their child’s language and want to be more informed of how speech and language therapy and developmental language disorder is brought up at a young age and how to help improve their child by helping them through it as they grow up. In contrast with the journal cited above it gives an example of a story of a mom and her journey to help her child while this journal goes more into how SLT and DLD is developed.