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CHILD WELFARE | TREATMENT VIOLENCE AT HOME

Foundation The Practice in the Netherlands offers help to children with development and|or psychiatric problems. Ortho pedagogue Anne Maaskant: "The dolls villa has been meanwhile well taken in use - both for diagnostic and for therapeutic aims. The quality of the material is splendid. Our findings and experiences so far are positive".

 
     
     
 

MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL

The Urology department at MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL has acquired a LILIANE dolls villa for its outpatient waiting room. Truus Rijvers works as an assistant there: "For the first time in my life, I see children playing together in the waiting room. One of the things they do is act out the doctor-patient encounter. When they come back for a check-up and the villa happens not to be there, they immediately want to know where it is!

 
     
     
 

ASTRID LINGRENS STOCKHOLM

The Swedisch children's hospital is using the LILIANE dolls villa at her department creative therapy: "Very sick children do not look to others, but mostly to the ground, as we noticed. For many years we were looking for an object which could stimulate the contact between the children. The dolls villa is exactly what we needed".

 
     
     
 

GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Doctor Swaans is a GENERAL PRACTITIONER with a practice in Bunde, the Netherlands: 
"Ever since we put the LILIANE dolls villa in my waiting room, I have been able to spend more quality time with my adult patients. Their children simply prefer to stay with the villa and keep playing! They even beg to be brought back for another visit. I also regularly find fathers, mothers and grandparents crouching around the villa. This product really helps create a relaxed atmosphere at my practice".

 
     
     
 

 

PSYCHOTHERAPY CLINIC ROTTERDAM

At the Clessiedra PSYCHOTHERAPY CLINIC in Rotterdam, the LILIANE dolls villa is often used for therapeutic purposes. Young patients may reveal incest experiences through their play with dolls.

 
     
     
 

Professor dr. W.H.G. WOLTERS

Medical child psychologist and expert on incest: "In a relaxed atmosphere, they can let the dolls go through the experiences they themselves wish to avoid. The features of the LILIANE dolls villa, its size, its durability and its mobility make this product very suitable for hospitals, (medical) day-care centres and children's rehabilitation centres". "Child psychiatry in particular makes frequent use of  doll’s houses. Playing with dolls allows children to cope with their (traumatic) experiences".