Play as therapy: assessment and therapeutic interventions
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2009
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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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
ISBN:184310637X
1846429285
9781843106371
9781846429286

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