The importance of play in children’s health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked. This unique text promotes

PLAY. We all do it: wordplay, love play, role-play; we play cards, play sport, play the fool, and play around. And that’s just the grown-ups! It features in e

This volume provides a thorough critical analysis of various healthcare teaching strategies. It offers new strategies and takes an integrative approach promotin

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the child’s right to health and development canno

Hospitalization can cause short-term to long-term issues to children’s biopsychosocial health. Play strategies have played a key role in preventing hospitaliz