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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"adult play"”.
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Adult Play and its Relations to the Working Alliance and Psychosocial Dysfunction in Short-Term Psychotherapy
<p>The importance of play in child development is well-documented: the capacity to play is associated with psychological health, and the cognitive and affective processes involved in play, such as fantasy, symbolism, narrative organization, divergent thinking, and affective expression, relate to …
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“I think adults play by spending time with their friends and by participating in leisure activities”: How college students conceive of and experience play in their everyday lives
Play scholars believe that humans play throughout their lifespan (e.g. Gray, 2009; Brown, 2009). There is a relatively large body of literature about play in childhood (e.g. Smith, 2009), but relatively little about play in adulthood (Van Vleet & Feeney, 2015), and most of the work that has been …
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Retiring to paradise? : reassessing liminality through leisure migration to Spain
… an interstitial space devoted to the pursuit of adult play. The thesis interrogates the reality of such rewards, looking at the tensions inherent in the 'freedom' sought within utopian spaces such as Spain. I reveal how the imagined freedoms necessitate some form of regulation, and I employ a …