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Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. . . . If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have. -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry<br> An important integration on both theoretical and practical grounds. -- Contemporary Psychology<br>

""Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. . . . If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have."" -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry ""An important integration on both theoretical and practical grounds."" -- Contemporary Psychology ""Slade and Wolf's well-edited text brings important strengths to the descriptive study of the uses of play and also highlights what it is that we have yet to learn about this vitally important human activity. ... It is coherent, despite the diversity of opinion and experience expressed by the writers, and the styles are relatively consistent . ... If you are going to have one text in your library devoted to the understanding of children and play, this is the one to have because of its depth, clinical scope and appropriate anchoring in research."" -- Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry ""The present book provides an important integration on both theoretical and practical grounds. The tasks at hand are to widen the developmental base about play and the role of mutual regulation across cultures, to generate empirical evidence for the interdependence between cognition and affect, and to incorporate experimental rigor in designing intervention studies."" -- Contemporary Psychology ""Successfully integrates clinical and developmental approaches to children's symbolic play.""--Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 1995 ""This book successfully integrates clinical and developmental approaches to children's symbolic play.""--Book Notices

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