Play therapy is a unique form of therapy that is better suited and perhaps more effective than traditional talk therapy for ...

Little Sarah is one of thousands to benefit from a fund helping adopted kids and those cared for by family or friends — but ...

During National Foster Care Awareness Month, the Children's Home of York in York County is implementing a new strategy to support children in foster care.

Certified child life specialists are relatively unknown. Learn how they help pediatric patients navigate stressful hospital visits.

Advoctates purport that play therapy stimulates a child's intrinsic method of acquiring knowledge, supporting communication, interpersonal skills, and emotional balance more effectively than can ...

Ward and a colleague were providing Fitz and other young children play therapy, an evidence-based therapeutic approach in which trained therapists help children express their emotions through the ...

Step into physical therapy professor Anjana Bhat’s colorful Move 2 Learn ... a whole-body movement group and a sedentary play group. Children in the movement group participated in a gross motor ...

A mother has described government cuts to therapy funding for adopted children as "disgusting". Lucy Williams, from ...

Many pediatric emergency departments have child life specialists, who explain procedures in developmentally appropriate ways and help young patients cope with stress through play therapy and other ...

Ms. Palmer shared that play therapy is a developmentally appropriate approach that allows children to express emotions, process life experiences, and build psychological resilience. Play is a ...