How to Do Play Therapy : Building a Growth Mindset Role Play

in this segment of a session with a young boy you'll notice me using several play therapy based techniques in the first few minutes in particular you'll notice me working to facilitate esteem and offer encouragement and I do this to promote a felt sense of self-efficacy and you'll notice that I acknowledge and reinforce the process or the effort rather than praising the [Music] product help oh you're thinking you might need some help getting that in there oh you know where it goes you got it in there you didn't even need my help okay and then help me you need some help hm let's see focusing okay I got it you got it you smiled help me okay you've got something else in mind you want to do who's checking it out this goes the other way oh you think it goes the other way okay pushing that like that into it oh mom wear it oh you'd like for me to wear that all right got it on now help me okay Hy to get them all in there that's hard to do it's hard to get them to all go in there I did you did it it was hard but it didn't stop you I did you did it you're proud H me okay we like some help put in me okay you know that you know that that part goes in there okay you're squeezing it together getting it in there mhm okay all right you're giving this to me got that again oh you want that one [Music] too going to put that right there in this segment of the session you'll see that the young boy tries to