| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Play as child chosen activity / Jenny Sturgess -- Play as transaction : the impact of child maltreatment / Rodney Cooper -- Children and playfulness / Reinie Cordier and Anita Bundy -- Children and pretend play / Karen Stagnitti -- Play assessment : a psychometric overview / Ted Brown and Rachael McDonald -- Pretend play assessment / Karen Stagnitti -- Play skill assessment for middle childhood / Jenny Sturgess -- Assessing play in a social setting / Tiina Lautamo -- Play in the hospital environment / Judi Parson -- Parent child play interactions / Susan A. Esdaile -- Cultural considerations / Athena A. Drewes -- Play intervention : the learn to play program / Karen Stagnitti -- Playing for healing and growth : exploring theory and practice in non-directive/child centred play therapy / Virginia Ryan -- Challenging bodies : enabling physically disabled children to participate to play / Rachael McDonald and Ted Brown -- Play focused therapy : different settings, different approaches / Rodney Cooper. |
| Summary |
While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain less clear to individual practitioners. Paediatric intervention approaches are increasingly being questioned, and individual practitioners constantly asked to provide evidence-based practice. In response, a more coherent understanding and fresh discussion on children's play and utilisation of play for therapeutic purposes is needed, especially as societal expectations and lifestyles change. Play as. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Play therapy.
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Play Therapy -- methods.
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Child.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- Child & Adolescent.
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Play therapy. (OCoLC)fst01066971
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| Added Author |
Stagnitti, Karen.
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Cooper, Rodney, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786612297595 9781843106371 (DLC) 2008039082 (OCoLC)246896289 |
| ISBN |
9781846429286 (electronic bk.) |
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1846429285 (electronic bk.) |
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