Sandra W. Russ, PhD, a clinical child psychologist, is the Louis D. Beaumont university professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has served as president of the Society for Personality Assessment of the Clinical Child Section of APA Division 2 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and of Division (Division of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts). She teaches a psychology of creativity seminar, and her research program has focused on relationships among pretend play, creativity, and adaptive functioning in children. Russ developed the Affect in Play Scale, which assesses pretend play in children, and she and her students are developing a play facilitation intervention. She is the author of Affect and Creativity: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process ( 993) and Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice (2 4) and coauthor of Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches (Russ amp amp Niec, 2 ).

Quite fascinating and in many ways compelling.(PsycCRITIQUES) Thorough and simply organized, this title is an invaluable resource.(Choice)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter : Pretend Play and Creativity: An OverviewChapter 2: Evolutionary, Psychoanalytic, and Developmental Theories of Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 3: Cognitive Processes in Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 4: Affective Processes in Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 5: Case Studies in Science and TechnologyChapter : Case Studies in the ArtsChapter 7: Facilitating Pretend Play and Creativity in Training ProgramsChapter 8: Play, Culture, and the Modern WorldAfterword: Converging EvidenceAppendix A: Affect in Play ScaleAppendix B: Transcripts From Play Facilitation SessionsReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Sandra W. Russ, PhD, a clinical child psychologist, is the Louis D. Beaumont university professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has served as president of the Society for Personality Assessment of the Clinical Child Section of APA Division 2 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and of Division (Division of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts). She teaches a psychology of creativity seminar, and her research program has focused on relationships among pretend play, creativity, and adaptive functioning in children. Russ developed the Affect in Play Scale, which assesses pretend play in children, and she and her students are developing a play facilitation intervention. She is the author of Affect and Creativity: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process ( 993) and Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice (2 4) and coauthor of Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches (Russ amp amp Niec, 2 ).

Quite fascinating and in many ways compelling.(PsycCRITIQUES) Thorough and simply organized, this title is an invaluable resource.(Choice)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter : Pretend Play and Creativity: An OverviewChapter 2: Evolutionary, Psychoanalytic, and Developmental Theories of Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 3: Cognitive Processes in Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 4: Affective Processes in Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 5: Case Studies in Science and TechnologyChapter : Case Studies in the ArtsChapter 7: Facilitating Pretend Play and Creativity in Training ProgramsChapter 8: Play, Culture, and the Modern WorldAfterword: Converging EvidenceAppendix A: Affect in Play ScaleAppendix B: Transcripts From Play Facilitation SessionsReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Sandra W. Russ, PhD, a clinical child psychologist, is the Louis D. Beaumont university professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has served as president of the Society for Personality Assessment of the Clinical Child Section of APA Division 2 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and of Division (Division of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts). She teaches a psychology of creativity seminar, and her research program has focused on relationships among pretend play, creativity, and adaptive functioning in children. Russ developed the Affect in Play Scale, which assesses pretend play in children, and she and her students are developing a play facilitation intervention. She is the author of Affect and Creativity: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process ( 993) and Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice (2 4) and coauthor of Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches (Russ amp amp Niec, 2 ).

Quite fascinating and in many ways compelling.(PsycCRITIQUES) Thorough and simply organized, this title is an invaluable resource.(Choice)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter : Pretend Play and Creativity: An OverviewChapter 2: Evolutionary, Psychoanalytic, and Developmental Theories of Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 3: Cognitive Processes in Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 4: Affective Processes in Pretend Play and CreativityChapter 5: Case Studies in Science and TechnologyChapter : Case Studies in the ArtsChapter 7: Facilitating Pretend Play and Creativity in Training ProgramsChapter 8: Play, Culture, and the Modern WorldAfterword: Converging EvidenceAppendix A: Affect in Play ScaleAppendix B: Transcripts From Play Facilitation SessionsReferencesIndexAbout the Author