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Play Therapy

"Play Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A treatment technique utilizing play as a medium for expression and communication between patient and therapist.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Play Therapy" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Play Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2014
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.