Issue-specific play with infants and toddlers in hospitals: rationale and intervention.
Children aged 6 months to 3 years have been documented as being the most vulnerable to persistent emotional sequelae of hospitalization. However, these children are inconsistently provided with age-appropriate emotional and developmental support in hospitals. This article discusses planned, systematic play as one necessary facet of emotional and developmental support to hospitalized infants and toddlers and their families and suggests categories and methods of issue-specific play interventions.
D002654:Child Care; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D010989:Play Therapy