play therapy

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   form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment

   Broaderpsychotherapy

Questions about play therapy

What does play therapy mean?

play therapy means "form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment".

Is play therapy a common word?

play therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.