This paper informs therapeutic practices that use play, by providing a non-standard philosophical account of pretense: the enactive account of pretend play (EAPP). The EAPP holds that pretend play activity need not invoke mental representational mechanisms; instead, it focuses on interaction and the role of affordances in shaping pretend play activity. One advantage of this re-characterization ...

THERE seems to be a growing interest on the part of many people today to explore more fully and objectively the dynamics of group behavior in an attempt to determine better methods of meeting the issues that sometimes arise in the áreas of human relations. Certainly the race issue is one that provokes further investigation and study. And as one sees examples of individuáis becoming involved in ...

There is an estimated 150 million children worldwide living with a disability. For many of these children in the U.S., physical therapy is provided as an intervention mechanism to support the child’s academic, developmental, and functional goals from birth and beyond. Typically, for a physical therapy intervention to be adopted, there must be sufficient evidence-based practices showing the effi...

The diagnosis of a childhood chronic illness affects both the child and his or her family, thus interventions should target the diagnosed child and the family system. Utilizing play therapy (PT) to treat childhood chronic illness has the potential to foster children’s development of a positive self-image, self-control, and promote a healthy parent-child relationship as the foundation for curren...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the roles that play occupies within current occupational therapy practice with preschoolers. METHOD Two hundred twenty-four pediatric occupational therapists completed mail questionnaires designed to ascertain how they use play in their practice, their knowledge and use of play assessments, and potential constraints on their use of play. RESULTS Although respon...

After a 40-year hiatus there is now a revisiting of psychedelic drug therapy throughout psychiatry, with studies examining the drugs psilocybin, ketamine, ibogaine and ayahuasca in the treatment of drug dependence. Limitations to these therapies are both clinical and legal, but the possibility of improving outcomes for patients with substance dependency imposes an obligation to research this area.

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In this paper human play is examined from the perspective of its role in evolution. A model of social evolution is proposed to extend the model of biological evolution and to demonstrate the central role of play in the social-evolutionary process. Since in evolution play is a mechanism for its process, it demands species members who are playful. Thus, man is a player by virtue of species member...

Effective classroom management is not simply about intervention strategies. A positive teacher-student relationship is essential for both responding to and preventing behaviour issues. This article summarizes current thinking on classroom management, provides information and research supporting the importance of the teacher-student relationship and presents a sample of effective strategies for ...

One of the greatest challenges that face child psychotherapists is to find an effective way of working with the many pre-adolescent children who come for treatment. Young children arrive at mental health settings with a tremendous array of emotional and behavioral problems, and the clinician must learn to help these children as well as their typically frustrated and perplexed adult caretakers. ...