Children at Play

Contributors I AFFECT IN SYMBOLIZATION 1. Representational Elaboration and Differentiation: A Clinical-Quantitative Approach to the Clinical Assessment of 2- to 4-Year-Olds, Stanley I. Greenspan and Alicia F. Lieberman 2. The Relation Between Anxiety and Pretend Play, Malcolm W. Watson 3. Play, Cure, and Development: A Developmental Perspective on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Young Children, W. George Scarlett 4. Constructing Metaphors: The Role of Symbolization in the Treatment of Children, Jan Drucker 5. Making Meaning and Making Believe: Their Role in the Clinical Process, Arietta Slade II RELATIONSHIPS AND SYMBOLIZATION 6. The Leaving Game, or I'll Play You and You Play Me: The Emergence of Dramatic Role Play in 2-Year-Olds, Elsa First 7. Self-Other Action Play: A Window into the Representational World of the Infant, Anni Bergman and Ilene Sackler Lefcourt 8. Play: A Context for Mutual Regulation within Mother-Child Interaction, Lorraine McCune, Donna DiPane, Ruth Fireoved, and Mary Fleck III DIFFERENCES AND DISTORTIONS IN SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONING 9. Windows on Social Worlds: Gender Differences in Children's Play Narratives, Louisa B. Tarullo 10. He's a Nice Alligator: Observations on the Affective Organization of Pretense, Greta G. Fein and Patricia Kinney 11. Symbolic Development in Children with Down Syndrome and in Children with Autism: An Organizational, Developmental Psychopathology Perspective, Dante Cicchetti, Marjorie Beeghly, and Bedonna Weiss-Perry 12. Development of Symbolic Play of Deaf Children Aged 1 to 3, Elsa J. Blum, Barbara C. Fields, Helen Scharfman, and Diana M. Silber 13. Play and Narrative in Inhibited Children: A Longitudinal Case Study, Lou-Marie Kruger and Dennie Palmer Wolf 14. Symbolic Play in the Interactions of Young Children and Their Mothers with a History of Affective Illness: A Longitudinal Study, Elizabeth C. Tingley Index