Pretend Play in Childhood

Auteur

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 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology); and of Division 10 (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 (1993) and Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice (2004) and coauthor of Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches (Russ & Niec, 2011).

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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.

Résumé
Sandra W. Russ reviews the theory and research on pretend play and creativity, arguing that pretend play in childhood provides a foundation for adult creativity.

Contenu

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pretend Play and Creativity: An Overview
Chapter 2: Evolutionary, Psychoanalytic, and Developmental Theories of Pretend Play and Creativity
Chapter 3: Cognitive Processes in Pretend Play and Creativity
Chapter 4: Affective Processes in Pretend Play and Creativity
Chapter 5: Case Studies in Science and Technology
Chapter 6: Case Studies in the Arts
Chapter 7: Facilitating Pretend Play and Creativity in Training Programs
Chapter 8: Play, Culture, and the Modern World
Afterword: Converging Evidence
Appendix A: Affect in Play Scale
Appendix B: Transcripts From Play Facilitation Sessions
References
Index
About the Author