Providing Mediated Learning Experiences Through Multidimensional Play Therapy

Multidimensional Play Therapy is an integrative, multidimensional metatheoretical approach to the use of play in working with clients' different modalities, with specific focus on the provision of mediated learning experiences through play. It is an attempt to fill in the gap and act as a bridge to integrate different ideas and practices in the fields of cognitive education and play therapy. Specifically, Multidimensional Play Therapy expands the use of play therapy to include providing mediated learning experience, based on Feuerstein's theory of structural cognitive modifiability and mediated learning experience. The use of play as mediation, proposed by Vygotsky, is integrated with Feuerstein's systematic application of Vygotsky's idea of a more competent human being (the play therapist) as mediator in the context of Multidimensional Play Therapy.