Nearly a Year After Tai Po Fire, Study Finds Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Help Reduce Children's Anxiety
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Nearly a year after the Tai Po fire, Save the Children Hong Kong and the Department of Counselling and Psychology at Hong Kong Shue Yan University conducted a study on psychological support for children and announced the results on 6 November 2026. The study showed that children who took part in play therapy and expressive arts therapy improved in anxiety, psychological resilience and positive family emotional expression. Among them, the play therapy group's generalised anxiety scale fell 86 per cent; the expressive arts therapy group's psychological resilience scale rose 14.6 per cent, and positive family emotional expression rose 49.19 per cent. The report did not mention the study sample size, the ages of the participating children, the duration of treatment or the control group arrangements, nor whether the study had passed peer review.
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- 香港經濟日報·生活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.
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