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Rethinking Valentine’s Day

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  Celebrating Love with your Family, by Amber Bond It’s obvious from the flood of emails in my inbox selling flowers, chocolates, and all things red that Valentine’s Day is […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: art, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, compliments, creative expression, family, family date, holiday, love, love notes, modeling, romantic love, shared activities, songs, stories, Valentine's Day

Powerful Play: A Parent’s Perspective on the Natural Language of Children

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By Amber Bond This month Americans celebrated Mothers and motherhood, so for the newsletter feature, our team asked me to write a story from the perspective of a parent. […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: children, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, music, parent, parenting, play, playful mindset, pretend, stories, zone of childhood

Dealing with the Darker Aspects of Halloween

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

By Keith Whipple, MA, RDT As a drama therapist, I hear a lot of stories. This time of year many of those stories can include dark, violent, solitary and monstrous […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: costumes, decorations, Denyse Beaudet, drama therapy, fear, fears, Halloween, Harry Potter, imaginative play, J.K. Rowling, keith whipple, reassurance, safe, stories, understanding

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