The Praeger Handbook of Play across the Life Cycle: Fun from Infancy to Old Age

by Luciano L'Abate

Book Overview

This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing.

Most American adults have little respect for play, for themselves or, increasingly, for their children. Are we losing anything with this attitude? Yes, says longtime clinical psychologist Luciano L'Abate. In a book that has a message for us all, L'Abate presents research showing that play, as one scholar put it, "is not a luxury, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313359296
• ISBN13: 9780313359293
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"