Play in Healthcare

Using Play to Promote Child Development and Wellbeing
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82653-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This fully updated new edition introduces the core knowledge and skills that healthcare professionals need to use play for promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people in a variety of professional contexts and healthcare settings. The textbook covers foundational content – such as the role of play in child development, relevant anatomy and physiology, the concept of resilience, health promotion, developing appropriate provision, investigating play provision and working in diverse healthcare settings. It also includes chapters on three new topics: health literacy, health play policy and play at the end-of-life.

Each chapter links to the NICE Guideline NG204 Babies, children and young people’s experience of healthcare and contains a variety of activities such as reflective exercises, case studies and practical tasks. An entirely rewritten case study chapter provides insight into real-life professional practice with vignettes from a range of professions that engage with children and their families.

Designed for all healthcare professionals who work with children and young people, including those studying to become health play specialists, child life specialists and children’s nurses, this text provides practical examples of how all members of the multidisciplinary team can help to support children’s play.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tonkin, Alison

Whitaker, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Kinderkrankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, 1. The development of play and recreation in healthcare settings, 2. Anatomy and physiology: applied knowledge in practice, 3. The child, family and society, 4. Child development in practice, 5. Play and recreation, 6. Playing until the end and beyond, 7. Enhancing resilience in children and young people, 8. Promoting health and wellbeing, 9. Playful communication: Children’s literature as a route to health literacy, 10. Health play policy, 11. Investigating ways of promoting play and recreation provision within healthcare, 12.  Play safe, 13. Leading the promotion of play and recreation, 14. Playing with the multi-disciplinary team

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Tonkin is a Lecturer in Childcare, at Stanmore College and St Margaret's School, Bushey, and a Trustee of the Society of Health Play Specialists

Julia Whitaker is a Health Play Specialist (Freelance) and Registration Co-ordinator, Society of Health Play Specialists