Play Away Stress!

There is a growing need for corporate employees to §be able to manage their stress levels and use stress §to their own, and to the organisation s, advantage. §Employees often experience stress because of an §excessive workload, a high expected work pace, §difficult work schedules, role conflict, uncertainty §regarding career security, poor interpersonal §relationships and unpleasant working conditions and §many more. Research was done within the corporate §environment. The author developed a stress §management programme which was presented to §corporate employees. The stress management programme §served as an intervention because it could enhance §the functioning of the corporate employees with §regard to their stress levels and also their general §functioning within the organisation and in their §personal lives. Play therapy is traditionally used §with children but relevant literature and the §author s own experience from the research has shown §remarkable results in the use of play therapy §mediums with adults. The literature as well as the §empirical study showed that play itself has a number §of therapeutic elements that produce behaviour §change.