Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing

Herausgeber: Tonkin, Alison; Whitaker, Julia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book makes a case for the role of play and playfulness in public health, focusing on the health and wellbeing benefits it confers. Drawing on a broad range of research evidence and practice experience, this book explores creative approaches for drawing society's more vulnerable members in and for application across the lifespan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781138541665
• ISBN-10: 1138541664
• Artikelnr.: 56893187

Autorenporträt

Alison Tonkin is Head of Higher Education at Stanmore College, United Kingdom. Alison has a research background in health promotion for pre-school children and has worked as both a diagnostic and therapeutic radiographer. Julia Whitaker has worked therapeutically with children and families in both public and private sectors for the past 30 years. Originally trained as a social worker and family therapist, Julia is also a registered Health Play Specialist with wide-ranging clinical and teaching experience in the field.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Improving the public's health through playful endeavours 2. The science
of public health 3. Playing for a healthy brain 4. Playful connections:
attachment at the start of life and beyond 5. Playful endings: making
meaning at the end of life 6. Playing together: the art and science of
relationships 7. Playful families 8. A playful childhood for all 9. The
playful workplace 10. Playing in a digital world: the good, the bad and the
possibilities 11. The playful environment 12. The art of public health 13.
Playful policy 14. Inclusive play as means of accessing public health 15
Playful participation, engagement and empowerment