1st Edition
Social Relations and Innovation Changing the State of Play in Hospitals
By David J. Hall
Copyright 1977
234 Pages
by
Routledge
David Hall spent several months studying the introduction of play therapy in children’s hospitals – the ways in which it is organized and introduced, and the way in which hospital staff, characteristically therapeutic in their orientation and disciplined in their approach, react to the deliberately informal approaches of play schemes in children’s wards. His observations form the basis for... Read more
Part one: Children and Change 1. Introduction to the study of children in hospital 2. Social relations and social structure 3. Innovation and resistance to change 4. Play, education and therapy Part two: Observations in Children’s Wards 5. The coming of the playleaders 6. Changes in children’s activities 7. Reflections on the experience of hospital Part three: Power, Negotiation and the Maintenance of Order 8. Perspectives on the wards 9. Creating the role of playleader 10. Summary and conclusions
Biography
David J. Hall
