Neuroscience Helps Play Therapists Go Low So Children Can Aim High


| RICK GASKILL, EDD, LCPC, RPT-S


“Traumatic experiences create alterations in key neural networks in the brain. These stress-related networks span multiple areas of the brain - from the brainstem to the neocortex, and, therefore, ‘getting at’ these systems in order to provide therapeutic ‘activations’ to create positive change is  these widespread networks in controllable, predictable, and moderate ways. Play engages sensory, motor, emotional, and cognitive systems. These play therapy ‘experiences,’ therefore, are a recipe for effective therapeutics and resilience building.”


8 | PLAYTHERAPY September 2019 | www.a4pt.org


Bruce Perry, MD, PhD


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56