200503 17-5 Filial Therapy: A review of the Development and Application on Research
| Tseng, Ren-Mei | Kao, Shu-chen |
| Kun Shan University of Technology | National Chunghua University of Education |
Filial therapy is a unique approach used by counseling professionals trained in play therapy to train parents to be therapeutic agents with their own children through a format of didactic instruction, demonstration play sessions, required at-home laboratory play sessions, and supervision. Filial therapy is a psycho-educational model. Parents are taught basic child-centered play therapy skills including responsive listening; recognizing children's emotional needs; therapeutic limit setting; building children's self-esteem; and structured, required weekly play sessions with their children using a special kit of selected toys. Parents learn how to create a non judgmental, understanding, and accepting environment, which enhances the parent-child relationship, thus facilitating personal growth and change for the child and parent. This approach presents a model which incorporates many aspects of other interventions （e.g., parent training, play therapy, family therapy, individual therapy, group therapy, and parent involvement）and adds the additional component of parent as therapist. In this article, the research literatures of filial therapy in forty years are reviewed and the results are discussed.
Keywords
filial therapy; psycho-educational model; play therapy
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