Working Bibliography | Works Cited

Bailey, Jeanne.  “Monisha C. Akhtar: Play and Playfulness: Developmental, Cultural and Clinical Aspect” American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 72.4 (Dec. 2012): 421-424. ProQuest.  Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Brannen, Barbara.  The Gift of Play: Why Adult Women Stop Playing And How To Start Again. Nebraska: ¡Universe, 2002.  Print.

Brown, Stuart.  Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul.  New York: Penguin, 2009.  Print.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Play, Playfulness, Creativity, and Innovation." American Journal of Play, 6.3 (Spring 2014): 411-413. ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Chang, Chen-Ping. “Relationships between Playfulness and Creativity among Students Gifted in Mathematics and Science” Creative Education, 4.2 (2013): 101-109.  ProQuest. Web Oct. 16 2014.

Chang, Chen-Ping, Chih-Ting Hsu, I-Jun Chen.  “Relationships between the Playfulness Climate in the Classroom and Student Creativity” Springer Science & Media, B.V. (September 21 2011).  ProQuest.  Web. Oct. 16 2014.

Chick, Garry, Careen Yarnal, Andrew Purrington.  "Paly and Mate Preference:  Testing the Signal Theory of Adult Playfulness."  American Journal of Play, 4.4 (Spring 2012): 407-440. ProQuest. Web. 02 Oct. 2014.

Csikszentmihlyi, Mihaly.  Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.  New York:  Harper Collins, 2013.  Print.

Dillman Taylor, Dalena, Sue C. Bratton.  “Developmental Appropriate Practice: Adlerian Play Therapy with Preschool Children.”  Journal of Individual Psychology. 70.3 (Fall 2014): 205-219. Academic Search Premier. Web. 14 Oct.  2014.

Dobbs, David.  “Playing for All Kinds of Possibilities” The New York Times, New York, D. 7 (23 April 2013). ProQuest.  Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Elkind, David.  “Playtime Is Over” The New York Times, New York, A. 19 (27 March 2010).  ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct.  2014.

Gagnon, Sandra, Timothy Huelsman, Anna Reichard, Pamela Kidder-Ashley, Marissa Griggs, Jessica Struby, Jennie Bollienger.  “Help Me Play!  Parental Behaviors, Child Temperament, and Preschool Peer Play.”  Journal of Child & Family Studies, 23.5 (July 2014): 872-884.  Academic Search Premier.  Web. 14 Oct. 2014.

Gordon, Gwen.  "Well Played: The Origins and Future of Playfulness."  American Journal of Play, 6.2 (Winter 2014): 234-266. ProQuest. Web. 02 Oct. 2014.

Henricks, Thomas S.  "Play as Self-Realization: Toward a General Theory of Play."  American Journal of Play, 6.2 (Winter 2014): 190-213. ProQuest. Web 02 Oct. 2014.

Olson, Tyler.  9337064: Mid adult man in playful mood holding shopping cart while woman sitting in it and looking at camera. 123rf.com. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.

Promise of Play. EP. Stuart Brown and David Kennard.  Direct Cinema Limited, 2008. DVD.

Rieber, Lloyd P. “Seriously Considering Play: Designing Interactive Learning Environments Based on the Blending of Microworlds, Simulations, and Games”.  Educational Technology Research & Development, 44.2 (1996): 43-58. Web. Oct. 14 2014.

Schaefer, Charles E.  Play Therapy with Adults.  New Jersey:  John Wiley & Sons, 2003.  Print.

Schall, James V.  “Mysticism, Political philosophy, and Play” Modern Age, 28.3 (Summer2006): 251-258.  Academic Search Premier.  Web. 14 Oct. 2014.

Shen, Xiangyou Sharon, Garry Chick, and Harry Zinn.  "Validating the Adult Playfulness Trait Scale (APTS):  An Examination of Personality."  American Journal of Play, 6.3 (Spring 2014): 234-266. ProQuest. Web. 02 Oct. 2014.

Staempfli, Marianne B. "Adolescent Playfulness, Stress Perception, Coping and Well-being." Journal of Leisure Research 39.3 (2007): 393-412. ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Vanderschuren, Louk J.M.J., Raymon J.m. Niesink, Jan M. Van Ree. “The Neurobiology of Social Play Behavior in Rats”.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 21.3 (1997): 309-326.  ProQuest. Web. 02 Oct. 2014.