{"id":2247,"date":"2016-05-02T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2017-02-17T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:42:25","slug":"design-toys-play-therapy-hospital-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/design-toys-play-therapy-hospital-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAY THERAPY AND TOYS FOR HOSPITAL PREPARATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals usually are uncomfortable and unfamiliar places for kids; examinations and operations are a\u00a0cause of anxiety and fear in the little patients. <strong>Play therapy and toys for hospital preparation\u00a0<\/strong>can relieve these feelings by informing and preparing children\u00a0about what to expect during their hospital\u00a0visit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Novel Hospital Toys\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50997776?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\"  allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hikaruimamura.com\/NOVEL-HOSPITAL-TOYS\" target=\"_blank\">Novel Hospital Toy<\/a><\/strong>, is a <strong>wooden toy<\/strong> designed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hikaruimamura.com\/ABOUT\" target=\"_blank\">Hikaru Inamura<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>targeting\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>psychological care<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>for children<\/strong> that are going to face\u00a0<strong>medical examinations<\/strong> at hospitals.\u00a0It is\u00a0composed by different <strong>hospital\u00a0machines<\/strong> like X-ray, CT, ECHO and ECG. Each machine-toy has a <strong>picture book<\/strong> with simple <strong>stories,<\/strong> written in just a few lines, to\u00a0introduce\u00a0them, as well as the friendly <strong>characters<\/strong> within, before to play.<\/p>\n<p>It is remarkable that every toy is designed also\u00a0to give <strong>light<\/strong> or <strong>sound<\/strong>\u00a0feedback in order to facilitate kids to imagine how these machines work\u00a0while they are playing with them, maybe in the <strong>waiting room<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_2-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2250 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_2-1.jpg\" alt=\"design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_2\" width=\"750\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_2-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_2-1-320x207.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_2-1-640x415.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hikaruimamura.com\/ABOUT\" target=\"_blank\">Hikaru Inamura<\/a><\/strong> observed\u00a0during her visit to <strong>Astrid Lindgren Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong>\u00a0that kids\u00a0use <strong>pretend play<\/strong> to reduce their <strong>psychological\u00a0fears of medical procedures<\/strong>. For example,<strong> hospital play specialists<\/strong> get children\u00a0to pretend to perform a surgery on their doll, developing a <strong>positive mindset<\/strong> to receive treatment themselves during the\u00a0process.\u00a0For this, they use actual medical materials on special\u00a0dolls with different body openings, pictures and books.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has also a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.narkoswebben.se\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0children, depending on their age, can use for their <strong>mental preparation<\/strong> before coming to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_3-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2252 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_3-1.jpg\" alt=\"design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_3\" width=\"750\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_3-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_3-1-320x209.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_3-1-640x418.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is important\u00a0that hospitals let children\u00a0to learn about <strong>illness, hospitalization and medical\u00a0treatments<\/strong> through the\u00a0<strong>play<\/strong>. This way the examination is perceived more as a kind of adventure they <strong>pre-experience<\/strong> through the characters, this way getting familiar with it. They need to <strong>remove<\/strong> easily their <strong>fears<\/strong> about it and have answers\u00a0to their typical <strong>questions<\/strong> like: it finishes soon? is it painful? parents can be together? and so on..<\/p>\n<p>In addition, since some examinations need to be done by the children without their parents, it would\u00a0be better to inform them before about what will happen during this time so,\u00a0what better way than playing? So while playing with<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/hikaruimamura.com\/NOVEL-HOSPITAL-TOYS\" target=\"_blank\">Novel Hospital Toy<\/a><\/strong> kids get prepared for the <strong>medical examinations<\/strong>\u00a0that are not well-known and are not easy to\u00a0explain in words, like X-ray, CT, Electro Cardiograph and Echographic examination..<\/p>\n<p>Also, in the picture books <a href=\"http:\/\/hikaruimamura.com\/ABOUT\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hikaru Inamura<\/strong> <\/a>uses simple <strong>words<\/strong> that children can understand easily and in a funny way, as for\u00a0example a stethoscope is called \u201cHello-Hello\u201d because it looks like a phone, the X-ray as \u201ctaking a picture by camera\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_4-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2255\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2255 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_4-1.jpg\" alt=\"design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_4\" width=\"750\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_4-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_4-1-320x208.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/design_toys_design_di_giocattoli_4-1-640x416.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0allow kids to play with <strong>toys<\/strong> that help them\u00a0<strong>reduce fear and anxiety<\/strong> for hospital preparation is a very good sign of the different attention we can have at children&#8217;s psychological well being,\u00a0having always in mind that often when they cry and ask us for impossible things is just to tell us that they are uncomfortable in that situation. This is a <strong>best practice<\/strong>\u00a0valid\u00a0also with autistic subjects, where the possibility for them to <strong>foresee a new or unfamiliar situation<\/strong>\u00a0is the best way to reduce the related <strong>stress<\/strong>. As well as preparing to the experience, to play with these toys also help children after\u00a0<strong>hospital examinations<\/strong>, allowing them to feel more confident in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/what-do-kids-think-about-sharing\/\" target=\"_blank\">sharing<\/a><\/strong> their experiences with their\u00a0family.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hikaruimamura.com\/NOVEL-HOSPITAL-TOYS\" target=\"_blank\">Novel Hospital Toys<\/a><\/strong> set is still at prototype stage\u00a0but it would be wonderful to see in the near future these products in hospitals and see how kids play\u00a0with them and make easier their visit to the doctor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toydesignstudio\/?ref=hl\" data-numposts=\"5\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals usually are uncomfortable and unfamiliar places for kids; examinations and operations are a\u00a0cause of anxiety and fear in the little patients. Play therapy and toys for hospital preparation\u00a0can relieve these feelings by informing and preparing children\u00a0about what to expect during their hospital\u00a0visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,140,104,113],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autism","category-design","category-educational","category-toy-blog","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PLAY THERAPY AND TOYS FOR HOSPITAL PREPARATION - TOY Design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toy-design.com\/design-toys-play-therapy-hospital-preparation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PLAY THERAPY AND TOYS FOR HOSPITAL PREPARATION - TOY Design\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hospitals usually are uncomfortable and unfamiliar places for kids; examinations and operations are a\u00a0cause of anxiety and fear in the little patients. 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