Children at play : clinical and developmental approaches to meaning and representation / edited by Arletta Slade, Dennie Palmer Wolf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Slade, Arietta, editor.

Wolf, Dennie, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolic play.

Symbolism (Psychology) in children.

Cognition in children.

Play and Playthings.

Symbolism.

Child Development.

Medical Subjects:

Play and Playthings.

Symbolism.

Child Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Children's play has been studied by clinicians as an indicator of the individual's early emotional development. More recently, developmental psychologists have taken an interest in play for what it reveals about early cognitive development. This study explores both perspectives of play.

Contents:

Representational elaboration and differentiation : a clinical-quantitative approach to the clinical assessment of 2- to 4-year-olds / Stanley I. Greenspan and Alicia F. Lieberman

The relation between anxiety and pretend play / Malcolm W. Watson

Play, cure, and development : a developmental perspective on the psychoanalytic treatment of young children / W. George Scarlett

Constructing metaphors : the role of symbolization in the treatment of children / Jan Drucker

Making meaning and making believe : their role in the clinical process / Arietta Slade

The leaving game, or I'll play you and you play me : the emergence of dramatic role play in 2-year-olds / Elsa First

Self-other action play : a window into the representational world of the infant / Anni Bergman and Ilene Sackler Lefcourt

Play : a context for mutual regulation within mother-child interaction / Lorraine McCune [and others]

Windows on social worlds : gender differences in children's play narratives / Louisa B. Tarullo

He's a nice alligator : observations on the affective organization of pretense / Greta G. Fein and Patricia Kinney

Symbolic development in children with Down syndrome and in children with autism : an organizational, developmental psychopathology perspective / Dante Cicchetti, Marjorie Beeghly, and Bedonna Weiss-Perry

Development of symbolic play of deaf children aged 1 to 3 / Elsa J. Blum [and others]

Play and narrative in inhibited children : a longitudinal case study / Lou-Marié Kruger and Dennie Palmer Wolf

Symbolic play in the interaction of young children and their mothers with a history of affective illness : a longitudinal study / Elizabeth C. Tingley.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773488-X

1-280-47224-3

0-19-802133-X

1-60256-363-2

OCLC:

476006572