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Doll therapy is so beneficial for those who are drawn to it. Having therapy dolls displayed in visible locations on memory care units, and particularly in a nursery life station setting, provides t…

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Doll therapy has been shown to help seniors in a number of ways, including reducing loneliness, providing comfort, and even improving mental health. If you're looking for a way to help your elderly loved one feel better, consider doll therapy. This article will tell you more about what it is and how it works.

Doll therapy has been shown to help seniors in a number of ways, including reducing loneliness, providing comfort, and even improving mental health. If you're looking for a way to help your elderly loved one feel better, consider doll therapy. This article will tell you more about what it is and how it works.

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five knitted dolls are lined up on a gray surface, with one doll in the middle

Worry doll activity to help children talk about anxiety, worry, and fears. The worry doll activity also comes with directions of how to guide the conversation with children to help them open up.

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As a child I used to love my Guatemalan worry dolls, I still do. My mom told me to whisper my worries to the dolls and they would fix them for me. It always seemed to work. Now I'm older I realise that this is because I'm actually verbalising my problems instead of keeping them to myself but as a kid I thought it was the dolls working their magic. I still have my dolls, but for a while I've wondered if I could make my own. On Pinterest there were a lot of tutorials to make them with cocktail…

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So Much To Make: Cloth Dolls for Children's Hospital. Service project idea. Sew these simple dolls and donate to children's hospital. The dolls are used as a communication tool by medical professionals, and then given to the children to keep.

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A project in Los Angeles uses doll play to address the phenomenon of “adultification bias,” a form of racial prejudice that can lead teachers and other authority figures to treat Black girls as more mature than they actually are.

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