Parent-child play : descriptions and implications

Author(s)

• MacDonald, Kevin

Bibliographic Information

Parent-child play : descriptions and implications

edited by Kevin MacDonald

（SUNY series, children's play in society）

State University of New York Press, c1993

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Parents and Children Playing Kevin MacDonald 1. Dilemmas in Adult Play with Children Brian Sutton-Smith Part I. Theoretical Perspectives 2. Parent-Infant Games as Dynamic Social Systems Alan Fogel, Evangeline Nwokah, and Jeanne Karns 3. Parent-Infant Play as a Window on Infant Competence: An Organizational Approach to Assessment Marjorie Beeghley 4. Parent-Child Play: An Evolutionary Perspective Kevin MacDonald Part II. Mechanisms of Parent-Child Play 5. Rough and Tumble Play: A Fundamental Brain Process Jaak Panksepp 6. Lessons from Primate Play Maxine Biben and Steven J. Suomi 7. Parent-Child Physical Play: Determinants and Consequences James Carson, Virginia Burks, and Ross D. Parke 8. The Necessary Lightness of Mother-Child Play Phyllis Levenstein and John O'Hara 9. Mother-Infant Play and Maternal Depression Jeffrey F. Cohn Part III. Cross-Cultural Perspectives 10. Peekaboo across Cultures: How Mothers and Infants Play with Voices, Faces, and Expectations Anne Fernald and Daniela K. O'Neill 11. Gentle Play Partners: Mother-Child and Father-Child Play in New Delhi, India 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 Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice B. Whiting 13. Persistence of Play and Feeding Interaction Differences in Three Miami Cultures Tiffany M. Field 14. Cultural Differences in Scaffolding Pretend Play: A Comparison of American and Mexican Mother-Child and Sibling-Child Pairs Jo Ann M. Farver 15. The Cultural Context of Mother-Infant Play in the Newborn Period J. Kevin Nugent, Sheila Greene, Dorit Wieczoreck-Deering, Kathleen Mazor, John Hendler, and Cynthia Bombardier Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA23048520
• ISBN:
  • 0791414639
  • 0791414647
• LCCN: 92020562
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 389 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ782
  • DC20 : 155.4/18
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Play
  • LCSH : Child development
  • LCSH : Parent and child
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13095557