Sandra W Russ

Gebundenes Buch

Pretend Play in Childhood

Foundation of Adult Creativity

Beschreibung

Evidence suggests that pretend play in childhood has an important role in providing a foundation for adult creativity. Indeed, many of the processes central to creativity occur in pretend play. In this book, Sandra W. Russ reviews the theory and research on pretend play and creativity, including cognitive and affective processes involved in play and creativity, possible evolutionary purposes of play, and its cultural variations.

Autor

Sandra W. Russ, PhD, a clinical child psychologist, is the Louis D. Beaumont university professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has served as president of the Society for Personality Assessment of the Clinical Child Section of APA Division 2 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and of Division (Division of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts). She teaches a psychology of creativity seminar, and her research program has focused on relationships among pretend play, creativity, and adaptive functioning in children. Russ developed the Affect in Play Scale, which assesses pretend play in children, and she and her students are developing a play facilitation intervention. She is the author of Affect and Creativity: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process ( 993) and Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice (2 4) and coauthor of Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches (Russ amp amp Niec, 2 ).  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781433815614
• ISBN-10: 1433815613
• Artikelnr.: 39224270