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5 tips from a play therapist to help kids express themselves and unwind

  • Written by Jessie D. Guest, Professor of Play Therapy, University of South Carolina
imageFantasy play, painting, playing made-up games and building with blocks are a few examples of free play. Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

As many children go back to school after 18 months of global pandemic, social isolation and on-and-off remote learning, they too are feeling the additional stress and uncertainty of these times.

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