Playtherapy is a specialised area used to treat children and adults as an alternative to and in conjunction with traditional talk therapies.

It uses the therapeutic aspects of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.

Playtherapy is an effective therapy that helps children modify their behaviours, clarify their self-concept and build healthy relationships.

It helps children find healthier ways of communicating, develop fulfilling relationships, increase resiliency and facilitate emotional literacy.

Filial therapy is a special kind of play therapy.It is an alternative method for treating emotionally disturbed children in which the parent is used as an ally in the therapeutic process. The parent becomes the child's primary therapeutic agent (Guerney, et. al. 1999; Landreth, 2000; VanFleet, 2000).

Parental involvement in a child's developmental process facilitates the parent's motivation to continue sessions and thus tends to eliminate the typical parental resistance that is encountered when the parent is not involved in the child's therapy.