Parent-child play : descriptions and implications / edited by Kevin MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacDonald, Kevin B.

Series:

SUNY series, children's play in society.

SUNY series, children's play in society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play.

Child development.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 389 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1993.

Summary:

This book provides the latest research and theory in the area of children's play with their parents. It includes discussions of the basic processes involved in parent-child play, parent-child play in atypical populations of children, and parent-child play in cross-cultural perspective. An opening section on basic processes provides a general background on the mechanisms involved in play and provides a foundation for the rest of the book. The section on atypical populations focuses on parent-child play among clinical populations, including Down syndrome children, premature children, hyperactive children, and economically distressed families and families with depressed parents. It expands the context of the populations' data described in the first section and provides some additional insight into mechanisms. Finally, the book describes some of the enormous cross-cultural variations in play behavior. Kevin MacDonald is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at California State University at Long Beach.

Contents:

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: PARENTS AND CHILDREN PLAYING by Kevin MacDonald

1. Dilemmas in Adult Play with Children by Brian Sutton-Smith

PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

2. Parent-Infant Games as Dynamic Social Systems by Alan Fogel, Evangeline Nwokah and Jeanne Karns

3. Parent-Infant Play as a Window on Infant Competence: An Organizational Approach to Assessment by Marjorie Beeghley

4. Parent-Child Play: An Evolutionary Perspective by Kevin MacDonald

PART II: MECHANISMS OF PARENT-CHILD PLAY

5. Rough and Tumble Play: A Fundamental Brain Process by Jaak Panksepp

6. Lessons from Primate Play by Maxeen Biben and Stephen J. Suomi

7. Parent-Child Physical Play: Determinants and Consequences by James Carson, Virginia Burks, and Ross D. Parke

8. The Necessary Lightness of Mother-Child Play by Phyllis Levenstein and John O'Hara

9. Mother-Infant Play and Maternal Depression by Jeffrey F. Cohn

PART III: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

10. Peekaboo across Cultures: How Mothers and Infants Play with Voices, Faces, and Expectations by Anne Fernald and Daniela K. O'Neill

11. Gentle Play Partners: Mother-Child and Father-Child Play in New Delhi, India by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Frank H. Hooper, Mohammad Ahmeduzzaman, and Brad Pollack

12. "Mother, Older Sibling and Me": The Overlapping Roles of Caregivers and Companions in the Social World of Two- to Three-Year-Olds in Ngeca, Kenya by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice B. Whiting

13. Persistence of Play and Feeding Interaction Differences in Three Miami Cultures by Tiffany M. Field

14. Cultural Differences In Scaffolding Pretend Play: A Comparison of American and Mexican Mother-Child and Sibling-Child Pairs by Jo Ann M. Farver.

15. The Cultural Context of Mother-Infant Play in the Newborn Period by J. Kevin Nugent, Sheila Greene, Dorit Wieczoreck-Deering, Kathleen M. Mazor, John Hendler, and Cynthia Bombardier

CONTRIBUTORS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4384-1154-5

0-585-05756-7

OCLC:

923397917