Nearly a Year After Tai Po Fire, Study Finds Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Help Reduce Children's Anxiety

Nearly a year after the Tai Po fire, research by Save the Children Hong Kong and the Department of Counselling and Psychology at Hong Kong Shue Yan University shows that children who took part in play and expressive arts therapy improved in anxiety, psychological resilience and positive family emotional expression. Children in the play therapy group fell 86 per cent on the Generalised Anxiety Scale, while the expressive arts therapy group rose 14.6 per cent on the psychological resilience scale and 49.19 per cent in positive family emotional expression.