soon to get its own 'hub' at one UK university, making it easier to
access specialist trainers. By Hannah Crown
According to one of its foremost proponents, Garry Landreth, filial therapy should be enshrined in legislation. 'If I were the Prime Minister we would have a law that required all parents to receive filial therapy and all nursery workers to train in it. We would change our society,' he says.
Dr Landreth, founder of the Center for Play Therapy at the University of North Texas, said this as he was teaching his 10-session filial therapy model to a room of play therapists at the University of Roehampton, where he is honorary visiting Professor.
The university is on the cusp of establishing a hub for nurseries and other practitioners to access play therapists in their area trained in Dr Landreth's model. The central premise of play therapy, of which filial therapy is a type, is allowing children to communicate to adults through play, as well as adults being able to 'read' children's play to understand their thoughts and feelings better.
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