Play in Healthcare
eBook - ePub

Play in Healthcare

Using Play to Promote Child Development and Wellbeing

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Play in Healthcare

Using Play to Promote Child Development and Wellbeing

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040452943
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Health Care Delivery

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 1 The development of play and recreation in healthcare settings
  13. Chapter 2 Anatomy and physiology: Applied knowledge in practice
  14. Chapter 3 The child, family and society
  15. Chapter 4 Child development in practice
  16. Chapter 5 Play and recreation
  17. Chapter 6 Playing until the end and beyond
  18. Chapter 7 Enhancing resilience in children and young people
  19. Chapter 8 Promoting health and well-being
  20. Chapter 9 Playful communication: Children’s literature as a route to health literacy
  21. Chapter 10 Health play policy
  22. Chapter 11 Investigating ways of promoting play and recreation provision within healthcare settings
  23. Chapter 12 Play safe
  24. Chapter 13 Leading the promotion of play and recreation
  25. Chapter 14 Playing with the multidisciplinary team
  26. Index