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. 2018 Summer;46(2):240-251.
doi: 10.1521/pdps.2018.46.2.240.

How to Design and Equip a Mentalization-Based Play Therapy Room

Ulrich Rüth  1   2 , Astrid Holch  1
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How to Design and Equip a Mentalization-Based Play Therapy Room

Ulrich Rüth et al. Psychodyn Psychiatry. 2018 Summer.

Abstract

Designing and equipping a play therapy room as a differentiated tool in a psychodynamic approach to child psychotherapy is seldom discussed. This article sketches out the equipment and furnishing of a play therapy room to be used for mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy and gives examples of the use of such a room in practice.

Keywords: child psychotherapy; furnishing; mentalization; play therapy; play therapy room.

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