Sandra Walker Russ: 2 books
Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy
Toward Empirically Supported Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only...
Affect and Creativity
the Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to the picture of creativity -- the affect half. This book addresses that other half by synthesizing the information that exists about affect and creativity and presenting a new model of the role of affect in...