But pretend
play, including fantasy games, still has
value in fostering youngsters» social and emotional growth, Goldstein and Matthew Lerner
of Stony Brook University in New York reported online September 15 in
Developmental Science.
Participants
of this workshop will experience a variety
of directive
play therapy activities, considering the activity's therapeutic
value, strategies for implementing the activity with a variety
of populations and considerations for adapting the activity to meet a wide range
of developmental stages.