Children at Play: Clinical and Developmental Approaches to Meaning and Representation - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195044142 ISBN 13 : 9780195044140

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Children's play has long been studied by clinicians as a window on the individual's early emotional development. More recently, developmental psychologists have taken an interest in play for what it reveals about early cognitive development. With the rise of developmental research into play, the time is right for an integration of both perspectives. This book answers the need for such a work. It brings together the work of leading workers in the field to provide an excellentoverview of clinical and developmental approaches to play for the benefit of professionals in both fields, as well as readers interested in child behaviour.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. ... It is coherent, despite the diversity of opinion and experience expressed by the writers, and the styles are relatively consistent . ... If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have because of its depth, clinical scope and appropriate anchoring in research." -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry

"The present book provides an important integration on both theoretical and practical grounds. The tasks at hand are to widen the developmental base about play and the role of mutual regulation across cultures, to generate empirical evidence for the interdependence between cognition and affect, and to incorporate experimental rigor in designing intervention studies." -- Contemporary Psychology

"Successfully integrates clinical and developmental approaches to children's symbolic play."--Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 1995

"This book successfully integrates clinical and developmental approaches to children's symbolic play."--Book Notices

Présentation de l'éditeur

As they play, children do more than imagine--they also invent life-long approaches to thinking, feeling, and relating to other people. For nearly a century, clinical psychologists have been concerned with the content and interpersonal meaning of play. More recently, developmental psychologists have concentrated on the links between the emergence of symbolic play and evolving thought and language. At last, this volume bridges the gap between the two disciplines by defining their common interests and by developing areas of interface and interrelatedness. The editors have brought together original chapters by distinguished psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, social workers, and developmental psychologists who shed light on topics outside the traditional confines of their respective domains. Thus the book features clinicians exploring subjects such as play representation, narrative, metaphor, and symbolization, and developmentalists examining questions regarding affect, social development, conflict, and psychopathology. Taken together, the contributors offer a rich, integrative view of the many dimensions of early play as it occurs among peers, between parent and child, and in the context of therapy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195044142
• ISBN 13: 9780195044140
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Slade Arietta, Wolf Dennie Palmer
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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