What is it about?
School-based Filial Therapy is a play therapy training and intervention program developed for implementation in rural primary schools. The program uses school personnel as therapeutic change agents for children who have mild to moderate emotion and behaviour problems.
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Why is it important?
In locations where accessing mental health care is limited by isolation, stigma and availability of specialist services, School-based filial therapy presents one possible solution to the dilemma.
Perspectives
As a clinician, this article is representative of something I would want to read. It presents a description of the process involved in developing and implementing an intervention which was deliberately privileged over the presentation of evaluative data. Process is just as useful for informing clinical practice as statistical evidence that an approach achieves positive outcomes, but a process is arguably more replicable across diverse settings and populations. I hope the article sparks some thinking within the minds of clinicians and encourages them to have more of an active voice in the world of academic publications.
Jane Cooper
Monash University
An adaptation of the filial therapy model specific to rural Australian primary school settings. The article provides a description of how and why the program was developed.
jane cooper
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: School-based filial therapy in regional and remote New South Wales, Australia., International Journal of Play Therapy, January 2019, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pla0000085.
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