Play Therapy · PT-07
Finish—or Change—the Story
Imagine several ways a scene might continue, pause, change, or remain unfinished.
Clinician-created · facilitator review requiredFor clinician-facilitated use
This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.
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How to use it
- Choose a scene that feels interesting or neutral enough.
- Tell, draw, act, or arrange one possible continuation.
- Try a different ending, add information, change the problem, or leave the story unfinished.
- Pass or stop if a scene feels uncomfortable.
Reflection prompts
- What other possibilities could fit this scene?
- What choice or support might a character want without teaching a lesson?
Facilitator guidance
Invite multiple endings and tolerate ambiguity, humor, repetition, refusal, and no resolution. Do not steer the story toward disclosure, confession, forgiveness, moral correction, or a preferred coping response; ask only open questions grounded in what the child created.
Adaptations & accessibility
- Offer sentence starters, picture choices, puppets, AAC, or collaborative drawing.
- Use fantasy, setting-only, or low-stakes scenes.
- Allow the child to change every character and premise before continuing.
Professional-use review
Licensed play-therapy review required before use; prompts must remain non-leading and must not turn symbolic stories into assumed biography, trauma disclosure, or moral testing.
