PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss
Children from the age of 5 are able to understand death. They have the ability to grieve but may sometimes choose to suppress this emotion to protect the adults around them to reduce the already overwhelming emotional loss in the family. This lack of grieving often denies the child a proper grieving...
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Nanyang Technological University
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141338 |
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| author | Chan, Alicia Li Zhen |
| author2 | Ng Ee Ching Candice |
| author_facet | Ng Ee Ching Candice Chan, Alicia Li Zhen |
| author_sort | Chan, Alicia Li Zhen |
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| description | Children from the age of 5 are able to understand death. They have the ability to grieve but may sometimes choose to suppress this emotion to protect the adults around them to reduce the already overwhelming emotional loss in the family. This lack of grieving often denies the child a proper grieving outlet. While counselling services and therapy are readily available for when children need support, it is not a viable option for everyone. For children who are not willing to open up to strangers, communication can come to a standstill, making progress impossible. Recognising that talk-based counselling is not for everyone, alternative help like play therapy which uses symbolic form to help children come to terms with their experience also prevails. This form of therapy, however, still requires the presence of a stranger which deters children who are uncomfortable to opening up freely and may thus be time-consuming. From interviews conducted on adults who were bereaved as children, it has been found that many did not attended counselling or therapy with reasons cited being that they didn't want to talk to people about it. This reluctance to speak to people denies the child the opportunity to externalize their emotions which can sometimes lead to depression and to the child using less adaptive mechanisms, such as denial, to get over the tough time. By creating a toolkit that uses the modality of play therapy to encourage the child to express their emotions in their own private space and fulfil the tasks a child needs to mourn a loss, we help children who are not comfortable in talking to people about their problem to still have an outlet to express themselves and grieve, therefore preventing the carrying of unresolved complications into the future. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1413382020-06-08T01:33:39Z PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss Chan, Alicia Li Zhen Ng Ee Ching Candice School of Art, Design and Media NgEC@ntu.edu.sg Visual arts and music::Visual arts Children from the age of 5 are able to understand death. They have the ability to grieve but may sometimes choose to suppress this emotion to protect the adults around them to reduce the already overwhelming emotional loss in the family. This lack of grieving often denies the child a proper grieving outlet. While counselling services and therapy are readily available for when children need support, it is not a viable option for everyone. For children who are not willing to open up to strangers, communication can come to a standstill, making progress impossible. Recognising that talk-based counselling is not for everyone, alternative help like play therapy which uses symbolic form to help children come to terms with their experience also prevails. This form of therapy, however, still requires the presence of a stranger which deters children who are uncomfortable to opening up freely and may thus be time-consuming. From interviews conducted on adults who were bereaved as children, it has been found that many did not attended counselling or therapy with reasons cited being that they didn't want to talk to people about it. This reluctance to speak to people denies the child the opportunity to externalize their emotions which can sometimes lead to depression and to the child using less adaptive mechanisms, such as denial, to get over the tough time. By creating a toolkit that uses the modality of play therapy to encourage the child to express their emotions in their own private space and fulfil the tasks a child needs to mourn a loss, we help children who are not comfortable in talking to people about their problem to still have an outlet to express themselves and grieve, therefore preventing the carrying of unresolved complications into the future. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication 2020-06-08T01:33:38Z 2020-06-08T01:33:38Z 2020 Final Year Project (FYP) https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141338 en ADM16.20.U1630837K application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Visual arts and music::Visual arts Chan, Alicia Li Zhen PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss |
| title | PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss |
| title_full | PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss |
| title_fullStr | PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss |
| title_full_unstemmed | PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss |
| title_short | PlayOkay : child bereavement following parental loss |
| title_sort | playokay child bereavement following parental loss |
| topic | Visual arts and music::Visual arts |
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