A Comparison of Play Behaviors in Two Child Life Program Variations
作者:
PassMarlynn D.,
BoligRosemary,
期刊:
Children's Health Care
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 1
页码: 5-17
ISSN:0273-9615
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc2201_2
出版商: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The purpose of this naturalistic study was to describe the play of children in hospital playrooms and to determine whether the type of child life program focus (i.e., playroom/group vs. nonplayroom/individual) impacts on the frequency and types of play behaviors exhibited. Despite differences in hours of availability, length of experience of staff, complexity of play spaces, and number of activities, the type of program focus was not found to affect significantly play frequency or type. There were, however, trends for more educative and therapeutic play to occur in the playroom-focused setting. Instead, child variables of gender and length of hospitalization were related to types of play exhibited, and the type of illness and whether the child was previously hospitalized were related to certain nonplay behaviors. Implications are drawn for additional study of play in child life contexts.
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