Therapies that are useful

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We're thinking about bringing our 8 year old DD for some play therapy. She seems to be having difficulty dealing with her emotions at the moment. My husband (who is a psychotherpist) thinks that she may be 'stuck' at 2.5 which is the age she was adopted at.
Does anyone have any experience of play therapy or anything else that might be useful for her. She is 8 but is very immature and has poor speech so a 'talk' therapy situation will probably not be suitable for her.
Thanks

Sorry not help to offer but just hope your lovely dd will be able to move on and forward.

I think play therapy is the way forward for your DD - in fact as you say she is far too young for any other kind of therapy. As I'm sure you know there is almost always a gap between a child's chronological age and emotional age, and yes adopted children do sometimes have "arrested development" (I think that's the right term). I think as well it would be helpful if you ensured your DD had some time to regress (playing games for younger children, easy jig saws, picture books etc) you could play with her at various "ages" and see how she reacted if you see what I mean.

I was a social worker for some 30 years and had the benefit of working collaboratively with a clinical psychologist, who assisted foster carers and adopters, and she always encouraged regression (not all the time of course) but for certain periods in the day, or when the child was tired or stressed. Some parents were a bit cynical of this but were amazed at how their children enjoyed this regression.

Have Adopted 10 all had initial similar problems including teens, fortunate having a large family helped, Found inclusions, with clubs, sport's drama,
dance , gym, etc. helped not forgetting are mixing with children with similar interest and there is also the social aspect attached, Have children with disability's are in clubs abled children lookout for them too and are very much included and part of the team. Its just finding what they like too do best and makes them secure and happy.
Good luck