Playing to grow: a primary mental health intervention with Guatemalan refugee children.
Adaptation and implementation of a primary mental health project based on work with children affected by political repression in Guatemala and Argentina are described. This intervention model utilizes a variety of expressive arts techniques to help children express their thoughts and feelings about growing up in exile. The model emphasizes the training of community members in the theory and methods of the intervention.
Program for Prevention Research, Arizona State University, Tempe.
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D000069:Acculturation; D001155:Art Therapy; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006166:Guatemala / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D010553:Personality Development; D010989:Play Therapy; D011577:Psychodrama; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence