The child easily identifies with puppets of animals or people and their problems, therefore, he is able to make suggestions or think based on appropriate problem solving strategies.
Puppet play is a powerful form of play that adapts to multiple combinations and possibilities. In particular, puppets and stuffed animals can be very useful in modeling the use of cognitive strategies such as the contrast of irrational beliefs and the development of positive self-statements. While cognitive therapy methods can be communicated directly to adults, children may need to communicate them indirectly through play activities. They allow children to be very creative by expressing an interaction and acting in a puppet show/mini-play.Ī recent CBPT development reveals that cognitive strategies can be used effectively with children if treatment is tailored to be developmentally appropriate and consistent with a child’s needs. Puppets take all forms, shapes, sizes and colors. Puppet play is a popular play technique that helps children express feelings, reenact anxious events, try out new, more adaptive behaviors, and overcome inhibitions. The therapist, in turn, can use puppets to model, explain and provide corrective emotional experiences in response to the child’s play. In this way, children can communicate their distress without having to directly claim traumatic experiences and painful emotions as their own. The child tends to identify with the characters involved in the puppet play and projects their feelings and interpersonal conflicts into the play.
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Puppet play creates an atmosphere of free expression that captivates the child. According to Woltmann, puppets are useful because they are easy to handle and maneuver, allow the child to be spontaneous, and lend themselves naturally to a process of self-expression.
Applying puppets in therapeutic work with children was introduced by Woltmann in the 1940s.
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