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Teddy bears are natural tools for curing all kinds of mental health problems. As a licensed clinical social worker, I have spent several years teaching professionals how to organize these cute and eye-catching toys into a model that can be highly effective in gathering remarkably fast information during a treatment session. I’ve heard stories about the benefits of sleeping with a teddy bear, giving teddy bears to trauma victims, and about holocaust survivors clinging to teddy bears as a lifeline. The teddy bear, despite over a hundred years of its origin, continues to be viewed as a single object, and little research has been done to prove its organized effectiveness in a model for healing pain and loss beyond just holding on to the bear. . The teddy bear was born around the same time as psychology, but the teddy bear developed as a children’s toy for boys, while psychology was born as a method of healing the minds of wealthy middle-aged women. Psychology has expanded over the years and is now seen as a way of working with every age, group, class and income group of people.

The teddy bear continued to be seen as a single object for children to hold and grasp. Teddy Bear Therapy as a model has remained stagnant. In addition to describing the benefits of holding a teddy bear, naming the teddy bear, and talking to the teddy bear for convenience, it has been overlooked as a model for assessments and interventions or as a model for play therapy for adults. In fact, it wasn’t even seen as a model, it was seen as a single object. An evidence-based model of applying teddy bears was developed at a community mental health center in Georgia. This template shows tips and tools from social work, marriage and family counseling, and psychology for working with people of all ages, races and socioeconomic groups. The model is interactive and expands clinical training from viewing the teddy bear as a single object, to viewing teddy bears as a model that goes beyond just naming the bear and projection onto the bear, to a tool that can provide doctors. objective methods of measuring subjective thoughts and feelings.

Over seven years of applying this model with substance abusing adults, adults released from prison, sexually abused adults and children, and with women who lost their children to social services, just to repeat generational patterns, has shown the strength and speed method that teddy bears organized as a model can have to create change quickly. The benefits of applying teddy bears as a model for identifying problems, treating pain and loss, and demonstrating measurable results are enormous. The biggest benefit is the speed with which this model can create change with adults and children of both genders.

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