Wednesday, February 20, 2008

HACEMOS ALGO CON PLAY??

un poco teoria de jugar.

lo siento - es en ingles:

“you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
/PLATON

Play is a rite and a quality of mind in engaging with one's worldview. Play may consist of amusing, pretend or imaginary interpersonal and intrapersonal interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout nature and are perceived in people and animals, particularly in thecognitive development and socialization of children.

As a theoretical concept, play is challenging to define. Rather than collapsing all views of this quality into a singular definition, play may be best envisioned as descriptive of a range of activities that may be ascribed to humans and non-humans. In general discourse, people use the word "play" as a contrast to other parts of their lives: sleep, eating, washing, work, rituals etc. Different types of specialists may also use the word "play" in different ways. Play therapists evoke the expansive definition of the term in Plat therapy and Sandbox Play. Play is cast in the modal of Sacred Play within Transpersonal Psychology.

Play provides a way for children to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process. As children’s experiences and knowledges are often communicated through play, it becomes an important vehicle for them to know and accept themselves and others.

Play Therapy is the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges and achieve optimal growth and development. A working definition might be a form of counseling or psychotherapy that therapeutically engages the power of play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to engender optimal integration and individuation.

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