Game Therapy As Coping Mechanism

Game therapy as coping mechanism

Introduction.

Game therapy has proven how over the years has been successful in children with multiple situations that he wrapped them during their childhood; It turns out that this time is not different, it has been proven as game therapy has served as a bridge to identify the different coping mechanisms used by children who suffer from cancer. According to the American Cancer Society in the article on cancer, it defines it as the growth of cell.

Developing.

This disease has become more frequent with the advance of the years, more and more cases that destroy, not only physically to the person, but also mentally and emotionally arise. When challenging cancer, different coping skills are used that change throughout the disease process, a child can use different strategies at the same time.

Game therapy is a tool that is worth, to know, investigate and discover the problem or emotional conflicts for which the child is past. The previous one is due to the fact that children do not verbalize their feelings, but through the game they externalize the problem. Through the investigations it is corroborated as the child is influenced emotionally, thanks to the psychoanalyst play therapy exposed by Melanie Klein explains that, through it, the child’s unconscious is reflected, so that during the TRANSFER You can see and study the cognitions of this, its behaviors, its family dynamics and its social field.

Parents and the social system manifest an unpredictable role in these situations, since they can influence the way the infant sees the disease, they perceive despair, fear, sadness and anger, which will create a picture of a picture of anxiety towards them and will provide more distress to the child.

Within the same study, the emotional indicators that expressed problems of emotional instability, anger, aggressiveness, anxiety, frustration, despair and anger could be observed. The most affected infants and that exhibit a greater application of the coping mechanisms, are those that have been recently identified and are hospitalized for unlimited time in the hospital, in addition to being continuously subject to chemotherapy treatments.

This investigation was relevant and successful, since it was demonstrated as children used the mechanisms for coping with denial, introjection, confluence, isolation, all these recognitions and results affirm that children who suffer from cancer have certain characteristics of similarity in their behaviors and use the coping mechanisms to be able to cope with their reality and be able to maintain the balance of their self.

It was determined that the most predominant mechanism used by children was the denial, since they are presented before the confinement and the inability to return to their homes in a shorter time. These results affirmed that children present similarity in their behaviors and in the use of coping mechanisms to be able to cope with their realities.

This therapy allowed to approach the child and understand her situation, using the means of expression he knows, without feeling obliged or pressed to do so. It is a social media that is used and will depend completely on it what you want to do and not on the people around you, you can really fantasize or express what you feel, without the social rules or demands that the environment demands.

Conclusions.

To conclude, the game supports us in the psychological care of children with cancer generating a sacred and optimal language and space to discuss infants. Game therapy is not only successful to identify the child’s coping mechanisms but also that we can also intervene and guide them, offering our support as experts in the discipline.

The beneficial effects of the game must also be taken into account, since this is indispensable; Hospitals must find a high training where this has trained spaces, say recreational places; Also, remember that the purpose, resources and medical approaches must be deeply human. Only those who are sick are released.