Game play : therapeutic use of childhood games
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Game play : therapeutic use of childhood games
（Wiley series on personality processes）
Wiley, c1986
Available at / 25 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
"A Wiley-Interscience publication"
Includes bibliogrphies and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Explored in this book is a new approach to child therapy that focuses on the considerable psychological significance of games and their use as a unique and largely untapped resource in diagnosis and therapy with children. It shows how to use specific types of games such as communication games, problem- solving games, ego-enhancing games and socialization games in specific therapeutic situations. Author and subject indexes are also included in the book.
Table of Contents
- Partial table of contents:
- COMMUNICATION GAMES
- Communication Board Games with Children (D. E. Frey)
- The Talking, Feeling and Doing Game (R. A. Gardner)
- PROBLEM-SOLVING GAMES
- Family Communication and Problem Solving With Board Games and Computer Games (E. A. Blechman et al.)
- Therapeutic Games for Children (C. Behrens)
- EGO-ENHANCING GAMES
- The Use of Competitive Games in Play Therapy (I. N. Berlin)
- The Game of Checkers in Child Therapy (R. A. Gardner)
- Therapeutic Use of Card Games With Learning-Disabled Children (S. E. Reid)
- SOCIALIZATION GAMES
- Socialization Games for the Mentally Retarded (B. Edmonson & N. Nevil)
- Therapeutic Implications of Games with Juvenile Delinquents (S. Serok)
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"
