Play Flashcards
What makes play different from other occupations?
- More internally than externally motivated
- Transcends and reflects reality
- Controlled by the player(s)
- More attention to process than product
- Safe, fun, pleasurable
What are elements of pretend play?
- Exploratory in nature, mastery over environment
- Involves movement & manipulation in environment
- Motor, sensory, cognitive-perceptual skills
- Facilitates integration, survival & understanding culture
- Facilitates flexibility in thinking, adaptability, learning, problem solving
- Develops intellectual, emotional & social skills.
What is the value of play in a child’s life?
- Play and playfulness should be considered as valid outcomes of therapy
- Because of the need to foster adaptability in children who have experienced adversity as child abuse and neglect.
How can the therapist interact a player in therapy?
- Play as means, more directive
- Play as end, more facilitative
- Unless the child (or older person) has a choice then it is not play
What is a definition of play?
Exploratory in nature and consisting of a variety of activities that involve movement and manipulation in relation to environment.
What are aspects of playful environments?
- Facilitate the conditions of play
- Safe
- Permission
- Opportunities
- Allow choice
- Amount of structure
What is the sensorimotor stage?
- Earliest form of play
- The child gets pleasure from the, sound, texture, colour, shape of objects and acting on them
- Begins with exploration of body and progresses to more constructive play
What is the constructive play stage?
- Development of concepts
- The child draws, paints or makes an object.
- Once completed the object retains its meaning.
- This form of play is more goal oriented.
- Relies on having reasonably well developed postural control/fine motor skills.
What is the pretend-symbolic play stage?
Once object constancy has been established the child begins to think representationally.
What is the pretend socio-dramatic stage?
Symbolic progresses to sociodramatic play when children engage in playing out roles they have experienced through stories, adults around them or TV programs
What is the rule-defined play stage?
- Games with rules require a highly socialised child.
- Children are not free to change their rules and need to keep their actions within the context of rules
What are the types of relationships defined by play?
-Solitary (repetitive & functional)
-Parallel (symbolic & early socio-dramatic)
-Co-operative (socio-dramatic)
Competitive (rules & performance)
What are the types of play?
- Functional Play
- Constructive
- Make Believe
- Games with Rules
