BENEFITS
Allowing a child to be helped, sends a clear message to a child that receiving help is okay. Therapy allows children to internalize this nurturing message and learn healthy self-care skills that are carried into adulthood. Through therapy, children are also able to develop healthy coping skills, learn appropriate expressions of feelings, develop effective communication skills, and develop a strong healthy identity. Other benefits include:
- reducing their anxiety about traumatic events
- facilitating their expression of feelings
- teaching them it is okay to ask for help
- helping them develop self-care skills
- teaching them it is okay to ask for help
- helping them develop self-care skills
- promoting self-confidence
- promoting appropriate behaviour
- enhancing creativity and playfulness
- enhancing creativity and playfulness
- creating/strengthing healthy bonding in relationships
- defining/reestablishing healthy boundaries
- developing a sense of appropriate trust in self and others
- developing new skills for dealing with difficult situations or circumstances
- increasing their optimism about their life ahead