Imaginative play training and perceptual-motor interventions with emotionally-disturbed hospitalized children.
This study evaluates fantasy play training and perceptual-motor intervention methods which temporarily increased the imaginative behavior of severely emotionally-disturbed, hospitalized children. Increases in imaginative behavior were accompanied by positive changes in body image and by affective and social gains. Implications for further development and implementation of these methods are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D000374:Aggression; D001288:Attention; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D010465:Perception; D010989:Play Therapy; D012744:Sex Ratio; D012919:Social Behavior