Introduction

The Lived Experience of Play and How It Relates to Psychological Wellbeing: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) Study Amongst Undergraduate Students from Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions’ Programmes in the United Kingdom

“…Likewise, the expression of covert play was a key finding, confirming that the students played in the clinical environment, particularly when the ward or department was less demanding, thus adding another facet to the typology of play. This notion of “play for the sake of play” has been observed in the literature [ 71 ], but studies are mostly bound by child-play studies, with no extant empirical studies which have examined play amongst adults in the healthcare organisational context. This finding therefore sheds new light on a misunderstood or perhaps dismissed aspect of play.…”

Children's Play–Work Occupation Continuum: Play-Based Occupational Therapy, Play Therapy and Playwork

“…Occupational therapists promote play participation opportunities for children presenting with physical, developmental, and psychosocial challenges (Ray-Kaeser & Lynch, 2017). The term play-based occupational therapy was coined by Rodger and Ziviani (1999) to reflect this.…”

“…Indeed, surveys in the United States and in Europe, examining therapists’ perspectives of play-based occupational therapy typically identified that the most common use of play was for remediation of other skills and play itself was rarely recognized as the target goal (Lynch et al, 2017; Miller Kuhaneck et al, 2013). Further analysis of how play-based occupational therapy is adopted in practice led to the identification of the continuum of play in practice model that moves from therapist-initiated to child-initiated play (Ray-Kaeser & Lynch, 2017). In most cases, play-based occupational therapy rarely addresses child-initiated play occupation as a distinct goal.…”