{"id":588,"date":"2012-09-28T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:01:55","slug":"facilitating-children-with-emotional-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/28\/facilitating-children-with-emotional-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating Children with Emotional Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many children today need help in emotional literacy. According to the National Health Morbidity Survey III (NHMS, 2006), about 20% of Malaysian children and adolescents have some form of psychological or behavioural problems that are preventing them from fulfilling their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know a child who&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is not realising his\/her full potential &#8211; academically or socially?<\/li>\n<li>has nightmares or has disturbed sleep?<\/li>\n<li>is at risk of being\/is excluded from school?<\/li>\n<li>has suffered trauma?<\/li>\n<li>has suffered emotional, physical or sexual abuse?<\/li>\n<li>is (or in the process of being) adopted or fostered?<\/li>\n<li>suffers because of separated\/divorced parents?<\/li>\n<li>suffers from anxiety, stress or phobias?<\/li>\n<li>has suffered a loss or bereavement of any kind?<\/li>\n<li>is withdrawn or continually unhappy?<\/li>\n<li>finds it difficult to make friends?<\/li>\n<li>quarrels frequently with peers or siblings?<\/li>\n<li>bullies others or is bullied?<\/li>\n<li>displays inappropriate behaviour?<\/li>\n<li>doesn&#8217;t play?<\/li>\n<li>is ill or disabled?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then you need to know how play and creative arts therapies can help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therapeutic Play &#8211; how does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Therapeutic play (including play therapy) is a well established discipline based upon a number of psychological theories. Research, both qualitative and quantitative, shows that it is highly effective in many cases. Recent research by Play Therapy UK suggests that 71% of the children referred will show a positive change.<\/p>\n<p>A safe, confidential and caring environment is created which allows the child to play with as few limits as possible but as many as necessary (for safety).<\/p>\n<p>This allows healing to occur on many levels following our natural inner trend towards health. Play and creativity operate on impulses from outside our awareness &#8211; the unconscious. No medication is used.<\/p>\n<p>During the sessions, the child is given strategies to cope with difficulties they face in life and which they themselves cannot change. It provides a more positive view of their future life.<\/p>\n<p>A session may last from typically 30 to 45 minutes. A variety of techniques, including the &#8220;Play Therapy Toolkit&#8221;, are used according to the child&#8217;s wishes and the skills of the practitioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many children today need help in emotional literacy. According to the National Health Morbidity Survey III (NHMS, 2006), about 20% of Malaysian children and adolescents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[71,134,206,258,267,315],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind","tag-children","tag-emotional","tag-literacy","tag-play","tag-psychology","tag-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}