List of Tables and Boxes
List of Figures
Introduction

PART I: Grounds for Play
Concepts Underlying Play and Play Therapy

1. Unstructured Play and Child Mental Health: The Primordial Connection
Lata Shenava

2. Play: A Description of Process that Underpin Play
Shashi Kiran M. G.

3. Play Therapy: Theory and Practice
Sugnyani Devi

Research and Research Approaches

4. Researching Kids: No Kids Play
Anju Joseph, C.V. Rekha Nair

5. Story-stems as Assessment Tools
M. Nithya Poornima, Priya Kayastha and Uma Hirisave

6. Story-Telling—A Qualitative Participative Method in Research with Children
Kaveri Haritas, Shekhar Seshadri

Context of Application

7. Child Psycho-social Health Interventions in Complex Emergencies: The Scope for Use of Play and
Creative Methods
Sheila Ramaswamy

8. An Understanding of Trauma in the Life of Runaway Children: A Practitioner’s Insight
Vikramjeet Sinha

Part II: Play on the Ground
Methods

9. When Words are not Enough
Naina Athale

10. Metaphor in Improvisation and Role Play with Street Children
Vikramjeet Sinha

11. Using Puppetry and Theatre with Children: My Experience in Developmental, Educational and Trauma Contexts

Meena Naik

12. Holding Up a Mirror to Life
Madhu Shukla

13. Campaign as a Methodology to Sensitise Children to Gender and Violence
Shubhada Maitra, Pranita Achyut, Ruti Levtov

Contexts

14. Helping Young Children Conceptualise Death and Loss
Sheila Ramaswamy

15. Use of Play while Conducting Sessions on Human Sexuality, Life Skills and Personal Safety for First to Tenth Standard School Students
Sangeeta Saksena and Shoiba Saldanha

Contributors
Index