THERAGAMES : FEATURES

• early intervention
• educational
• developmental
• meaningful experience
• mediated learning approach
• emotional resilience training
• rapport building
• fun

THERAGAMES are therapeutic games that are designed to teach social and emotional skills to children. The games progress in skill and complexity and are an early intervention strategy for children aged 4 - 14. Game leaders teach the basic teaching points of the game while playing and apply emotional first aid as needed. Leaders can be psychologists, counsellors, specialist teachers, teachers, parents, grandparents, mentors, peer mediators, peer support leaders, scripture teachers, in fact, anyone who is prepared to respectfully referee children and work through the issues that come up while playing the games.

THERAGAMES are designed for use at three levels:

a.. Skilled therapists/teachers/psychologists are able to work with individual children and young people with moderate emotional and social difficulties
b.. Small groups of 4 or 5 children or young people can play the games with therapists/teachers/psychologists to practice social and emotional skills
c.. Teachers can use the teaching points of the games as a basis to classroom lessons. The games can be 'attached' to the board and played as a whole class