基本説明
Shows how play and playful activities have developed and changed across recent history, how we play at various ages and stages, and why that helps us develop into healthy people.
Full Description
This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing.
Most American adults have little respect for play, for themselves or, increasingly, for their children. Are we losing anything with this attitude? Yes, says longtime clinical psychologist Luciano L'Abate. In a book that has a message for us all, L'Abate presents research showing that play, as one scholar put it, "is not a luxury, but rather a crucial dynamic of healthy physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development at all age levels."
The Praeger Handbook of Play across the Life Cycle: Fun from Infancy to Old Age, shows how play and playful activities have developed and changed across recent history, and how their necessity has been the subject of changing cultural and educational views and controversies. The book overviews the history of play, summarizes current research and theory, shows how we play at various ages and stages, and explains why that helps us develop into healthy people—physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.
Contents
Foreword by Arthur M. Horne
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Definitions and a Bird's Eye View of Play
1 Come, Let's Play
2 Play across History and into Cyberspace
3 What the Experts Say about Play
4 What Cultures Have to Do with Play
5 What Parents and Adults Have to Do with Play and Gender
6 Chronological Age Is Not the Same as Development in Play
Part II: Chronological Stages of Play
7 Infancy
8 Nursery, Preschool, and Kindergarten
9 Elementary School
10 Middle School and Puberty
11 High School and Adolescence
12 College and Early Adulthood
13 Adulthood, Middle Age, and Old Age
Part III: The Usefulness of Play
14 Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, and Relational Benefits
15 In Their Best Interest: Play Therapy for Children
16 Play as Rehabilitation
Part IV: Controversies about Play
17 The Technology of Play Time and of Media Time
18 What Teachers and Coaches Think about Play
Part V. Conclusion
19 A Hierarchical Theory of Play Competence
References
Appendix A Resourcesz
Appendix B Monitored Play Therapy
Appendix C An Experimental Theory-Derived Structured Play Interview
Index
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