1st Edition
Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing
List of illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin
1 Improving the public’s health through playful endeavours
Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin
2 Playing for a healthy brain
Alison Tonkin
3 The science of public health
Alison Tonkin and Lisa Whiting
4 The art of public health and the wisdom of play: Participation in the creative arts as a route to health and wellbeing
Eric Fleming and Julia Whitaker
5 Playing together: The art and the science of relationships
Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin
6 Play, attachment and the empathy–equity connection
Julia Whitaker
7 Finding playfulness in the everyday: An antidote to the ‘saturation’ of modern family life
Julia Whitaker
8 The playful pursuit of child public health
Jenni Etchells and Alison Tonkin
9 Play, disability and public health
Claire Weldon and Alison Tonkin
10 A playful working life and beyond
Christina Freeman and Alison Tonkin
11 Playing in a digital world
Alison Tonkin
12 A place for play: Creating playful environments for health and wellbeing
Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin
13 Playful policy
Rachel Bayliss and Alison Tonkin
14 Playful endings: Making meaning at the end of life
Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin
Index
Biography
Alison Tonkin is Head of Higher Education at Stanmore College, United Kingdom. Alison has a research background in health promotion for pre-school children and has worked as both a diagnostic and therapeutic radiographer.
Julia Whitaker has worked therapeutically with children and families in both public and private sectors for the past 30 years. Originally trained as a social worker and family therapist, Julia is also a registered Health Play Specialist with wide-ranging clinical and teaching experience in the field.
