Our Purpose
The Society exists to further the good practice of therapeutic work with children. This includes improving children's emotional literacy as well as alleviating behaviour and mental health problems. We believe that the use of various forms of recognised therapies to help children fulfil their potential and overcome emotional and behavioural problems has reached a critical stage in the UK.
It is necessary for evolution to happen. PTUK intends to lead the way.
A prime need is to combine, co-ordinate and integrate the valuable skills that all therapists possess for the benefit of all children in need.
Since therapeutic work with children draws its strength from a multi-disciplinary approach, it is vital to be completely open in considering and accepting many different approaches for working with children. Play therapy is a comparatively recent discipline in the UK. Because of its relative newness it is important that its evolution is encouraged, that new ideas and methods are considered, tried and evaluated.
PTUK welcomes into full membership anyone who has satisfactorily completed a recognised course for working therapeutically with children such as drama, art, music, dance and movement - as all these disciplines may be used on their own or as an integrative part of play therapy. They all have an equally valuable contribution to make.
PTUK is a forum for working together with a respect for each other's role.
Our Mission
To continue to be the leading professional body, in the United Kingdom, dedicated to promoting the use of play, creative arts therapies (the therapies) and filial play as ways of enabling children to reach their full potential by alleviating social, emotional, behaviour and mental health problems.
