ABSTRACT
As a therapist, it is not enough to attend only to the words a child might use to describe their
emotional responses to life; indeed, most young children do not yet have the appropriate
vocabulary or verbal sophistication to be able to describe their world adequately. As with
adults, a child’s body language and relationship style will provide important and revealing
clues and information. But by providing children with the opportunity to play, and by
observing and interpreting their play, we can add another dimension to our understanding of
what it is to listen to children.
