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Play Skills
Play is well understood to be an important aspect of child development and a means of socialisation and learning for children. However, play is a...
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“Are They Going to Play Nicely?” Parents’ Evaluations of Young Children’s Play Dates
Over the last 20 years, opportunities for young children to engage in self-directed free play with peers outdoors or during the school day has...
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Educational Role Play Knowledge Module and Guide for Psychosocial Practice
In this springer essential book, Manfred Günther impressively describes educational role play. He shows how it emerged in the 1970s as a new, guided...
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Teaching Play Skills
Play is often thought of as the foundation for interacting, exploring, socializing, and learning about the world around us. Play engagement is highly...
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Irish Traveller Children’s Play: A Scoping Review
Irish Traveller children, an ethnic indigenous minoritized community in Ireland are identified in Ireland’s play policy as at higher risk of...
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Play
Pretend play involves generating ideas, treating objects symbolically, and making-up and acting out stories. Expression of emotion and affective...
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Developmental Play Skills as Outcomes of Early Intervention
Play is critical in the development of cognitive and language skills in young children with autism; however, few studies have examined the impact of...
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Promoting Reciprocity During Pretend Play in Children with Autism
Due to the challenges in reciprocal pretend play in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the current study examined the effectiveness of a...
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Children’s Play and Leisure Engagements: The Effect of Maternal Traumatic Events
Maternal practices and their exposure to traumatic events might impede children’s psychological adjustment; however, family relations, play, and...
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Parents’ Perception of Risk in Play: Associations with Parent and Child Gender
Allowing children the opportunity to take risks in their play may provide learning experiences that benefit children’s health and well-being....
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Interventions Targeting Interactive Play in Individuals with Autism: A Systematic Review
Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may fail to acquire interactive play and leisure skills due to deficits associated with the...
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Adolescents’ videogame play, need satisfaction, and self-esteem: a self-determination perspective
Initial evidence suggests that need-supportive videogame play can have positive short-term effects on adolescents’ need satisfaction, and may...
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Teaching Siblings to Encourage and Praise Play: Supporting Interactions When One Sibling is Autistic
Sibling relationships may be strained when one sibling is diagnosed with autism and the other is not. The way that siblings interact during play is...
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Exploring Mental Health and Development in Refugee Children Through Systematic Play Assessment
To evaluate a standardized play observation as a measure of young children’s mental health and development in a clinical and refugee population. We...
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Effects of a Teacher-Facilitated Peer-Mediated Intervention on Social Play of Preschoolers with Autism
Children with autism often display differences in functional and symbolic play and may experience barriers to social inclusion with peers in...
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Test-retest reliability of the play-or-pass version of the Iowa Gambling Task
The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is used to assess decision-making in clinical populations. The original IGT does not disambiguate reward and punishment...
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Effect of gestalt play therapy on empathy in hard-of-hearing children
Gestalt Play Therapy (GPT) is a practical form of play therapy to improve empathy in hard-of-hearing children. This study examined the effectiveness...
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A Review of Literature on Interventions Aimed at Increasing Play for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
ObjectivesThis review aimed to investigate interventions designed to enhance play for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), emphasizing the...
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Examining Effective Intervention Strategies in a Play-Based Program for Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome
Background : Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) display impaired pretend play abilities, reflective of broader social-cognitive challenges....
