directive play therapy

a controlled approach to play therapy in which the therapist is actively involved, structuring a child’s activities by providing selected play materials and encouraging the child to use them in the enactment of “pretend” situations and the expression of feelings. Compare nondirective play therapy.

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systemic mucopolysaccharidosis

see Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome.