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Published Online: February 1985

Puppetry as a Therapeutic Tool for Hospitalized Children

Ian Alger, Susan Linn, and William BeardsleeAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 36, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.2.129

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Introduction from Dr. Alger: Using puppets in therapy has been of special value for younger children who may have great difficulty in verbalizing or who have undergone traumatizing abuse. The idea of transferring puppetry to video brings many of the advantages of this useful technique within the realm of clinicians who lack the opportunity or facility to work with actual puppets.

Our guest consultants are Susan Linn, Ed.M., a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology and from 1975 to 1982 a puppetry therapist at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, and William Beardslee, M.D., clinical director of the department of psychiatry at the same center, who supervised the work described here.

The next column will present more detailed reviews of three tapes in the series described below, Asthma, Diabetes, and Death and Loss. Information about purchasing the tapes is available from Family Information Systems, Inc., 69, Clinton Road, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 36 • Number 2 • February 1985

Pages: 129 - 130

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Published in print: February 1985

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Ian Alger

Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, The American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Self-Study Materials

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Susan Linn

Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, The American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Self-Study Materials

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William Beardslee

Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, The American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Self-Study Materials

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Puppetry as a Therapeutic Tool for Hospitalized Children

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