Utilizing the


Therapeutic Powers of Play to Create Change


| JULIE NASH, PHD, RPT-S T


 vitally important for each play therapist to know, understand,          


Simply put, these are the mechanisms by which play becomes therapeutic for clients of all ages. The therapeutic powers are the change agents that are found in therapy that lead to positive clinical outcomes by effecting   does the therapy actually change the person?” So, in play therapy, they are the aspects of play that make our work effective. Play allows for the


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initiation, facilitation, and strengthening of the therapeutic powers that           understand what the therapeutic powers of play are and what they look like in play sessions, their power and potential can be harnessed to guide       as the basic tenets of major theories to allow for effective prescriptive matching of the necessary ingredients to help clients heal.


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