Enhancing Adolescent Mental Health Through Play and Playfulness
Exploring the use of play and playfulness to improve adolescent mental health, this presentation emphasizes the benefits of incorporating play-based activities and strategies. The content delves into defining play and playfulness, design of new activities, normalization, and ways to integrate these elements into practice effectively.
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The Power of Play Use of Play and Playfulness to Improve Adolescent Mental Health Lindsey Carter, OTR/L, QMHP-C & Molly Norris, MS, CCLS 03.04.2022
ICE BREAKER 2 03.04.2022
Playfulness is a Superpower Defining play and playfulness Play and playfulness This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Normalizing play with adolescents 3 03.04.2022
A little about us 4 03.04.2022
What is a Child Life Specialist? 03.04.2022 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
- Help infants, children, youth and families cope with the stress and uncertainty of acute and chronic illness, injury, trauma, disability, loss and bereavement." - Provide evidence-based, developmentally and psychologically appropriate interventions - "The child life profession exists to promote optimal development and minimize psychosocial trauma in children" 6 03.04.2022
How Child Life and OT work together Areas of cross coverage and support 7 03.04.2022
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning Mr. Rogers 03.04.2022 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
Objectives Identify how play and playfulness can improve mental health outcomes in adolescents Identify Define Define play and playfulness Explain how play and playfulness can be used with adolescents Design one new play based activity to utilize with adolescents Design Explain Demonstrate 3 different ways to incorporate and apply play and/or playfulness into their classroom or practice Determine how to normalize play and playfulness with adolescents Determine Demonstrate 9 03.04.2022
Playfulness is a Superpower A picture containing toy, doll, vector graphics Description automatically generated 10 03.04.2022
Defining Play Playfulness 11 03.04.2022
What does the research say? Play Playfulness Spontaneous and rewarding to the individual Intrinsically motivated Preformed repeatedly Player is not ill or stressed Positive mood state- joyful, cheerful, spirited Facilitates and accompanies play There is overlap between the two, however playfulness is more of a state of being, while play is a series of actions 12 03.04.2022
Social components of play Unoccupied Solitary Onlooker Parallel Associative Cooperative 13 03.04.2022
Types of play Functional/ manipulative Active/ energetic Explorative Social Pretend 14 03.04.2022
Adolescent Development and Play SOCIAL PHYSICAL INTELLECTUAL COMMUNICATION EMOTIONAL 15 03.04.2022
Case Study "Patient is 15 years old with multi-faceted trauma. They have been having increased anxiety following a break up with their first significant other, which triggered memories from the trauma. Due to increased anxiety, the patient has been more reserved, even though they are usually bubbly, and their grades have been slipping- they used to be a straight A student. Questions to consider How can you engage this child in a playful activity with their peers? How can you use the play to help decrease the child's feelings of anxiety or how will you know if the play is working? How can you use the child's interests to promote play? Can you use play to discuss mental health difficulties with this child? If so, how? 16 03.04.2022
LETS PLAY! 17 03.04.2022
Play and Mental Health Decline of mental health in adolescents Increased anxiety and depression Reduced sense of personal control Increased narcissism Decline of play Outdoor play Increased school work 18 03.04.2022
Normalizing play in adolescents What is normalization? Why is adolescent play different? Normalizing adolescent play Engagement in social activities "The process by which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of the social norms become regarded as normal" "The process by which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of the social norms become regarded as normal" Engagement with family Presence of media 19 03.04.2022
How will you use this information? Any questions? 20 03.04.2022
