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| Filial/family play therapy: an intervention for custodial grandparents and their grandchildren | | Author(s) | Sue Bratton, Dee Ray, Kevin Moffit |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 24, no 4, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 391-406 |
| Keywords | Grandparents ; Grandchildren ; Family care ; Courses ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the last decades in the US there has been a significant rise in the number of grandparents assuming primary responsibility for their grandchildren whose parents are absent or incapacitated. Grandparents encounter many challenges in adjusting to their changing role; and their grandchildren, most of whom are disconnected from their parents, face an increased risk of emotional and behavioural difficulties. The Filial/Family Play Therapy (FFPT) grandparent training model is a unique intervention for custodial grandparents aimed at fostering healthy parent-child relationships through training and supervising grandparents in the basic methodology of child-centred play therapy, while providing them with the emotional support they need. Grandparents conduct weekly play therapy-type sessions with their grandchild; learning to convey acceptance, empathy, and encouragement, as well as master the skills of effective limit setting. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980811234 A |
| Classmark | SW: SW5: P6:SJ: VE: 7T |
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