1st Edition
Play in Hospitals Real Life Perspectives
0. Introduction
Fraser Brown and Mike Wragg
Part I: Theoretical underpinning
1. The Development of the Role of Hospital Playworker
Judy Walker
2. Still a Deprived Environment for Children? Revisiting the Case for Hospital Play
Cath Hubbuck and Joanne Cross
3. It Pays to Play! How I discovered cost effective play and the start of the MRI Awake List Project
Irene O’Donnell
4. Support for Siblings during the Medical Journey
Charlotte Hamflett
5. The Elephant in the Room- Mental Health Illness in children and young people; can health play specialists make a difference?
Irene O’Donnell
6. The Hospital Playroom: A key part of children and young people’s care and recovery
David Stonehouse
Part II: Personal Reflections on the Role of the Hospital Play Specialist
7.
My Journey
Lisa Beaumont
8. The ‘Magic of Play’- Exploring the importance of play and distraction during medical procedures
Katie Lane
9. A Day in the Life of a HPS
Katie Collins
10. Teenagers in hospital- are they the forgotten age?
Nicky Everett
11. Specialised Play in the Hospital Setting
Susan Fairclough
12. The Angry Health Play Specialist
Cath Hubbuck
Part III: Specific Case Studies
13- Support for children and young people undergoing radiotherapy treatment
Lobke Marsden
14. Working with children and young people with autism in the Health Care Setting
Nicola Voos and Susan Fairclough
15. Virtual Reality: The new distraction therapy?
Tracey Martin
16- The role of the health play specialist in the care of children and young people with cancer
Penelope Hart-Spencer
17. Teenagers in Hospital
Nicky Everett and Sarah Dransfield
18. Ship-shape and Bristol Standard fashion: The ‘why’, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of implementing the Bristol Standard within the practice of a hospital play team
Julie Fisher, Nicky Bale and Jo Casely
19. Managing a Play Team through the Covid Crisis
Laura Walsh
Part IV: Reflections from around the world
20. Oh! The Places You’ll Go! – A play specialist’s journey
Ana Smith (New Zealand)
21. Play in two different ways- A Reflection on Play Practice in the United Arab Emirates.
Gemma Hookins, Humara Bushra Ashraf and Sara Costa (UAE)
22. "G’Day!" A history of hospital play in an Australian Children’s Hospital
Leanne Hallowell (Australia)
23. Integrating Play in North American Hospitals- Historical and Current Approaches
Michael Patte (USA)
24. The Hospital Play Specialist Education Course in Japan: what we have achieved and what we need to overcome
Chika Matsudaira (Japan)
25. Let’s start with play- why play in the emergency department can be our best tool for interventiosn
Cala Hefferan and Laura Sufka (USA)
Part V: Playing in other ways and other settings
26. Play in a children’s hospice- what’s the point?
Lynda Elliot
27. The therapeutic power of playing with chronically abused children
Fraser Brown
28. Play and the paradigm shift
Barrington Powell
29. Playing Beyond the Boundaries- How the role of the health play specialist can benefit adults in healthcare
Irene O’Donnell
30. Play with purpose: the therapeutic value of play for siblings of pediatrtic patients
Cala Heffernan and Mikaela Sullivan
31. Taking hospital play into the home
Tracy West
32. Concluding Thoughts
Nicky Everett and Cath Hubbuck
Appendix- Useful Links
Index
Biography
Nicky Everett is Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK, Cath Hubbuck is a registered Health Play Specialist, currently based in London, UK, Fraser Brown is Emeritus Professor of Playwork at Leeds Beckett University, UK.
