Play in Healthcare

Using Play to Promote Child Development and Wellbeing

Alison Tonkin, Julia Whitaker (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2025 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-82653-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	16 Tables, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Kinderkrankenpflege
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-032-82653-3 / 1032826533
ISBN-13	978-1-032-82653-0 / 9781032826530
Zustand	Neuware