"Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. ... It is coherent, despite the diversity of opinion and experience expressed by the writers, and the styles are relatively consistent . ... If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have because of its depth, clinical scope and appropriate anchoring in research." -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry

• PART I: AFFECT IN SYMBOLISM ; 1. A Quantitative Approach to the Clinical Assessment of 2- to 4-year-olds ; 2. The Relationship Between Anxiety and Pretend Play ; 3. Play, Cure, and Development: A Developmental Perspective on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Young Children ; 4. Constructing Metaphors: The Role of Symbolization in the Treatment of Children ; 5. Making Meaning and Making Believe: Their Role in The Clinical process ; PART II: RELATIONSHIPS AND SYMBOLIZATION ; 6. The Leaving Game, or I'll Play You and You'll Play Me: The Emergence of the Capacity for Dramatic Role Play in Two-year-olds ; 7. Self-Other Action Play: A Window into the Representational World of the Infant ; 8. Play: A Context for Mutual Regulation Within Mother-Child Interaction ; PART III: DIFFERENCES AND DISTORTIONS IN SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONING ; 9. Windows on Social Worlds: Gender Differences in Children's Play Narratives ; 10. He's a Nice Alligator: Observations on the Affective Organization of Pretense ; 11. Symbolic Development in Children with Down Syndrome and in Children with Autism ; 12. Development of Symbolic Play of Deaf Children Ages One to Three ; 13. Play and Narrative in Inhibited Children ; 14. Symbolic Play in the Interactions of Young Children and their Mothers with a History of Affective Illness ; INDEX

"Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. ... It is coherent, despite the diversity of opinion and experience expressed by the writers, and the styles are relatively consistent . ... If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have because of its depth, clinical scope and appropriate anchoring in research." -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry

• PART I: AFFECT IN SYMBOLISM ; 1. A Quantitative Approach to the Clinical Assessment of 2- to 4-year-olds ; 2. The Relationship Between Anxiety and Pretend Play ; 3. Play, Cure, and Development: A Developmental Perspective on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Young Children ; 4. Constructing Metaphors: The Role of Symbolization in the Treatment of Children ; 5. Making Meaning and Making Believe: Their Role in The Clinical process ; PART II: RELATIONSHIPS AND SYMBOLIZATION ; 6. The Leaving Game, or I'll Play You and You'll Play Me: The Emergence of the Capacity for Dramatic Role Play in Two-year-olds ; 7. Self-Other Action Play: A Window into the Representational World of the Infant ; 8. Play: A Context for Mutual Regulation Within Mother-Child Interaction ; PART III: DIFFERENCES AND DISTORTIONS IN SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONING ; 9. Windows on Social Worlds: Gender Differences in Children's Play Narratives ; 10. He's a Nice Alligator: Observations on the Affective Organization of Pretense ; 11. Symbolic Development in Children with Down Syndrome and in Children with Autism ; 12. Development of Symbolic Play of Deaf Children Ages One to Three ; 13. Play and Narrative in Inhibited Children ; 14. Symbolic Play in the Interactions of Young Children and their Mothers with a History of Affective Illness ; INDEX

"Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. ... It is coherent, despite the diversity of opinion and experience expressed by the writers, and the styles are relatively consistent . ... If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have because of its depth, clinical scope and appropriate anchoring in research." -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry

• PART I: AFFECT IN SYMBOLISM ; 1. A Quantitative Approach to the Clinical Assessment of 2- to 4-year-olds ; 2. The Relationship Between Anxiety and Pretend Play ; 3. Play, Cure, and Development: A Developmental Perspective on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Young Children ; 4. Constructing Metaphors: The Role of Symbolization in the Treatment of Children ; 5. Making Meaning and Making Believe: Their Role in The Clinical process ; PART II: RELATIONSHIPS AND SYMBOLIZATION ; 6. The Leaving Game, or I'll Play You and You'll Play Me: The Emergence of the Capacity for Dramatic Role Play in Two-year-olds ; 7. Self-Other Action Play: A Window into the Representational World of the Infant ; 8. Play: A Context for Mutual Regulation Within Mother-Child Interaction ; PART III: DIFFERENCES AND DISTORTIONS IN SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONING ; 9. Windows on Social Worlds: Gender Differences in Children's Play Narratives ; 10. He's a Nice Alligator: Observations on the Affective Organization of Pretense ; 11. Symbolic Development in Children with Down Syndrome and in Children with Autism ; 12. Development of Symbolic Play of Deaf Children Ages One to Three ; 13. Play and Narrative in Inhibited Children ; 14. Symbolic Play in the Interactions of Young Children and their Mothers with a History of Affective Illness ; INDEX