Why would a school issue a play therapist?

Question

Why would a school issue a play therapist?

Answer 1

if you mean employ a Play therapist,it will be to assess achild through play to see how their social interaction has developed. Play therapy can be useful if a child has been abused as the child may disclose abuse through play.

Answer 2

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'issue a play therapist'.

Can I assume you mean, 'employ a play therapist'.

I suppose then, in my cynical way, that modern teachers have lost the art of teaching and play as being complimentary arts and need to have yet another highly paid social type worker to teach them something which always appeared to come naturally to previous generations. God help us all.

Answer 3

Not sure what you mean by 'issue' a play therapist.  Some schools use counsellors and / or play / art therapists to work with children who are experiencing emotional difficulties.  Here's the website of the organisation I work for one day a week:

http://www.theplace2be.org.uk/home.html

Answer 4

What?

Answer 5

Some of our children with a Special Educational Need are sent to the community Development Clinic and play therapists go out to their homes to assess their progress and to help any parents that might need some extra help.  Usually they would be called upon if the staff felt that the child wasn't progressing in the way that they should be.

The children who have a play therapist and could have  needs that range from a behavioural issues, physical disabilities right up to servere learning needs.  They can be used for all different children to assess all different things and are not necessarily something to worry about.

Answer 6

I assume you mean they have a play therapist working with your child in which case there are concerns around how appropriately the child is playing. Without you saying more than you have it's wrong to second guess the reasons - I suspect you know them already...talk to the school.