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Play is a universal language of childhood, offering children a safe and natural way to explore emotion and develop social skills. For children from diverse cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, play and play therapy provide an inclusive space that honors each individual experiences while fostering growth. By engaging in creative, imaginative activities guided by therapeutic principles, children can process complex feelings, build confidence, and transcend verbal communication. This approach not only supports emotional well-being, creating pathways for healing and development across varied life experiences. Benefits of Play, Play Therapy, Sports, and Recreation for Children of Diverse Backgrounds explores the benefits of play and play therapy for children. This book offers techniques and support, as well as efficacious findings regarding the beneficial use of play and play therapy for positive child development outcomes. Covering topics such as therapy, psychology, and cultural development, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, professionals, psychologists, social workers, professors and individuals interested in child development.

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Nava R. Silton, a Developmental Psychologist, received her B.S. from Cornell University in 2002 and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University in 2009. Silton has worked at Nickelodeon and Sesame Street Workshop, and has consulted for Netflix, Disney, Apple, and the Autism Seaver Center. She appears regularly on Fox 5 News as a Psychological Correspondent. Nava is currently a Full Professor of Psychology at Marymount Manhattan College. She has written over three dozen peer-reviewed journal articles, over twenty chapters, book reviews and encyclopedia entries and has edited nine full textbooks. Her first two books discuss innovative technologies for individuals with autism and other disabilities, her third delves into creativity, her fourth into family dynamics and romantic relationships and her most recent text explores the constructs of happiness, gratitude, kindness, empathy and well-being. Moreover, Silton created the Realabilities Educational Comic Book Series Curriculum, which has been in over 30 schools across the country and The Addy & Uno Off-Broadway Musical, which ran for over 18 months at Theater Row on 42nd street in New York, NY.

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