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Download Author: Singer, Dorothy G.


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Partners in Play: A Step-by-step Guide to Imaginative Play in Children

Partners in Play is an invitation to everyone who spends time with pre-school children–parents, nursery school and day care teachers, babysitters, grandparents–to increase the pleasure and value of the children’s play by fostering imagination and fantasy.

Psychologists Dorothy and Jerome Singer have written a practical book that lays down the basic principles of fantasy play and then presents, in a step-by-step format, explicit games that will develop body mastery, stimulate the various senses, and encourage make-believe. For each game they enumerate the materials necessary (usually simple, inexpensive, and often found around the house), procedures for play, and variations that extend the repertory of games. There are games that can be played indoors or outdoors, games suitable for the solitary child or groups, for the ailing child, the bored youngster fidgeting in the doctor’s waiting room, the active boy or girl who needs to channel all that energy constructively. Appropriate ways to utilize television without allowing it to take over imaginative play are spelled out.

For children themselves, the benefits of such play are significant and long-range. The developed imagination helps memory, vocabulary, the sense of self, the ability to master the environment, and the capacity for adaptation. Grownups and children share in the rewards of this loving and stimulating partnership, and the child whose imagination has been nurtured becomes a far more creative adult.(276 pp.)

Lois: the Princess in the Tower

Helping a child through the death of a parent (43 pp.)

Perry: The Volcano Maker

Helping a child with substance abusing parents (38 pp.)

Tom’s Scary World

Helping a child who has experienced sexual abuse (39 pp.)

Marty: the Little Cyclone

Helping a child with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity (36 pp.)

Barbara: Wednesday’s Child

Helping a child through the process of divorce (33 pp.)

Victoria: The Bed Wetter

Helping a child with sibling rivalry and self esteem (42 pp.)

Playing for Their Lives:Helping Troubled Children Through Play Therapy

Children are vulnerable, and too often they suffer–sometimes at the hands of those who profess to love them most, their parents. In poignant tales of therapy drawn from her practice, a wise and empathic psychologist, Dorothy Singer, addresses common problems of children today.

The author tells the story of the five-year-old victim of physical abuse who upon first entering therapy can communicate only with his fists. Through an insightful analysis of the boy’s artworks and games, Singer succeeds in breaking through his explosive anger to reach the pain and hurt he feels inside. She details the plight of the child who, caught in the middle of her parents’ divorce, sinks further and further into depression as the parents struggle to gain custody. As the child uses her dolls to poignantly play out the family conflicts, we are reminded yet again of the sometimes tragic effects of divorce, but Singer also demonstrates through this story how children can be made to understand and ultimately to accept their parents’ separation.

In another inspiring story, the author explains how, with the help of parents and play therapy, one can work with a hyperactive child to achieve remarkable changes in behavior with out the use of drugs, which today are prescribed all too commonly to treat this problem. And finally, we are given new insights into the effects of sexual abuse when Singer details the case of one of its victims, showing how through her therapeutic techniques, a child can be released from his terrifying memories of violation.

In these and other tales, Singer not only gives us greater understanding of the effects of common social problems on children, but she also shows how through toys, art, dramatic play, and games children can be healed. She explains how the therapist can work with the parents to change their behavior so that they too can become part of that healing process. In addition, through descriptions of her therapeutic techniques, we gain greater insight into the significance of children’s play.

These poignant and ultimately helpful stories will speak to parents, educators, and therapists alike.(294 pages)

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