Pretend Play and Emotion Learning in Traumatized Mothers and Children

Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Haight, Wendy ^a   Black, James ^b   Ostler, Teresa ^a   Sheridan, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Emotional development; Learning; Mothers; Parents; Pretend play; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920486730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304381.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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