Medically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyD, MPHMedically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyD, MPH Play therapy is a form of psychotherapy that is primarily used for children. Since children may not have the ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

This post is in response to The Elephant in the Room… Was Screaming By Scott G. Eberle Ph.D. In a recent post for his blog, “Play in Mind,” historian and essayist Scott Eberle defends play as a key ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...