The work of play
Subtitle: child psychotherapy in contemporary Korea
By: Sheena Nahm
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780739183021; 9780739183038
Subjects: Child psychopathology; Child; Play therapy; Play Therapy; Child psychotherapy; Cultural Competency
Description: The Work of Play: Child Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea is an ethnography that investigates a child play therapy program as it leaves the United States and takes root in South Korea. At the heart of this book is a group of female therapists figuring out how to make a living in an emerging sector while improving the lives of the children they treat. They grapple with questions about maintaining program fidelity while translating and transforming the program to be socially and culturally relevant. Based on years of research, The Work of Play traces how therapeutic expertise is cultivated by combining instinct with formal training. Readers will follow a group of therapists as they form professional roots in the pediatric mental health landscape of contemporary Seoul and see what life is like at the intersection of stigma and demand. Sheena Nahm, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist with an interdisciplinary health sciences and social sciences background. She works with families in low-income urban areas of Los Angeles while also teaching courses in health, culture, and social change for The New School. Publisher's note.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. How Play Works; title: Chapter 2. Between Stigma and Demand; title: Chapter 3. Alternative Legitimacy; title: Chapter 4. Achieving Intuition; title: Chapter 5. A Good-Enough Proposal; title: Chapter 6. Disrupting Flows; title: Chapter 7. What Play Proposes.