Cognitive behavioral therapy game in children

AbstractCognitive behavioral therapy gamePsychologists use games to treat many disorders. The use of games and play therapy has no age limit. One of the methods of therapists to treat cognitive disorders is to use cognitive behavioral game therapy. Cognitive-behavioral game therapy has a significant effect on training and improving the skills of people, both children and adults. With cognitive behavioral therapy game, the level of aggression and stubbornness, anxiety of people can be reduced.What is cognitive behavioral play therapy?In cognitive behavioral game therapy, the treatment process begins with accurate measurement. In the diagnosis stage of play, the therapist looks for the origin of the child's fear, emotional and behavioral problems. After the diagnosis, the game therapist begins to design the game. He uses cognitive play therapy techniques to correct the child's incorrect or inconsistent cognitions.Cognitive behavioral game therapy has four stages (initial stage - assessment stage, middle stage and final stage). In the initial stage of the game, the therapist seeks to communicate with the child. If the play therapist establishes a good relationship with the child, it will be less challenging in the later stages of cognitive play therapy. When the play therapist communicates with the child, he goes to evaluate the child in various activities in order to know the origin of his cognitive, sensory, and mental problems.In the middle stage, the cognitive-behavioral game therapist designs a therapeutic plan according to the strengths and weaknesses of the child, and in the course of treating the child through cognitive game therapy, he focuses۲on increasing the child's self-control, sense of progress, and learning more adaptive responses to face certain situations.

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children- Play- treatment