Argumentative Essay On Family And Play In Family Therapy

This week’s reading assignment offered the reader valuable insight into topic of “Play and Family Therapy.” All four of the assigned reading this week flowed together and reinforced one major theme. Why family therapy and play therapy go together like peanut and jelly and better training helps clinicians feel more adequate offering the service. Both chapters one and two in “Play in Family Therapy” did an excellent job in educating anyone interested in understanding the many benefits families can obtain by bending both therapies. The idea of a family attempting to have family therapy without input from the smallest members of the family does not seem logical after reading the history of both Play and Family Therapy. By providing logical evidence as well as scholarly affirmation from Sori and Gil the arguments one may try to use against combining play and family therapy seemed somewhat silly.
Interestingly the point being made was successfully driven home by informing the reader many of the founders of family therapy still used the psychoanalytical approach created by Freud. As I began reading the second chapter in “Play in Family Therapy” I tried to come up with my own reasons why children would be better served by excluding them from family therapy. …show more content…
Sori and Sprenkle in the two studies provided even more insight into the topic of “Family and Play Therapy. Each article was written with the intent of driving the point home better education students and counselors will be better equipped to combine play therapy in services offered to families seeking counseling. It soon became clear after the reading better training and understanding leads to future counselors and clinicians feeling equipped at offering play therapy in their family sessions. After the reading it would be hard provide support against children being included in family counseling if counselors are trained and willing to used play therapy to