The Importance of Play: A Child Psychotherapist's View

Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 99-103

  Alvarez, Anne ^a   Phillips, Asha ^a  

^a TAVISTOCK CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child development; infant observation; Play; psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012436419     PISSN: 13606417     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-3588.00223     Document Type: Article

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