Play and Wellbeing

by Cindy Dell Clark

In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital. This volume opens a unique window on the role of play in health and wellbeing in widely varied contexts, from the work of Patch Adams as a hospital clown, to an Australian facility for dementia treatment, to a New Zealand preschool after an earthquake, to a housing complex where Irish children play near home. Across these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113811958X
• ISBN13: 9781138119581
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"