Playwork

Brown, Fraser; Long, Alexandra; Wragg, Mike

doi:10.1017/9781108131384.039

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“…Playworkers can include landscape architects, urban planners, playground designers and manufacturers, horticulturalists, educators, childcare staff, local and state government staff, and sports and recreation planners, amongst others. Playwork practitioners are primarily focused on creating opportunities for school-age children to engage in and access as wide a range of play types as possible through the creation of place spaces (Brown et al, 2019). In other words, playworkers support all children (those with disabilities and those who are able-bodied) to engage in daily play occupations .…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Brown¹,

Lynch²

2022

Can J Occup Ther

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Introduction: Occupational therapists often use play-based approaches to facilitate children's occupational development and promote participation, for example, play-based occupational therapy, play therapy and playwork. However, where does play occupation fit, within these adult-guided play-based approaches in occupational therapy? Purpose: To examine and discuss the play–work occupation continuum of children to inform occupational therapy practice. Key Issues: Children's play occupations are free-selected, unstructured, internally-controlled, spontaneous and intrinsically-motivated. Yet, occupational therapists often utilize play as a therapeutic modality to support occupational development for occupations other than play. This use of play represents play-based work occupations as they are structured, externally-controlled, adult-guided, goal-focused and extrinsically-motivated. Play occupations then move from being authentic free-play to adult-guided play-based work occupations for children. Implications: When working with children and families, occupational therapists need to balance the use of self-selected, unstructured play occupations with the application of adult-guided, structured, goal-focused play-based work occupations.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%