What Do Therapists Use to Cure and Treat Children's Mental Health?

Play is a child’s natural way to explore their world. Children also use play to find solutions to problems. Play can be healing. Children’s thoughts and emotions come to the surface during play. You can often find out more about how a child views the world by watching and joining in their play than you can by asking them to tell you what is wrong, or asking why they did something.

"Very young children lack the ability to articulate what is troubling them. Through play therapy, they can express themselves nonverbally".

Psychologists use play therapy, to treat children. Here, instead of asking young patients what the problem is, the therapist provides them with drawing materials and toys, on the assumption that whatever is troubling them will be expressed in their drawings and games.

The main goals of play therapy include allowing a child to communicate his or her feelings, heal externalizing conflicts, master anxiety, take a respite from internal pressure and exercise new solutions of problems.