Come Play With Me: An Argument to Link Autism Spectrum Disorders and Anorexia Nervosa Through Early Childhood Pretend Play

Eating Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 254-259

  Pepin, Genevieve ^a   Stagnitti, Karen ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CREATIVITY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PLAY; PLAY THERAPY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; THEORY OF MIND;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84860326745     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: 1532530X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640266.2012.668488     Document Type: Article

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