Working as a Child Analyst in a Community Daycare Program. Issue 1 (31st December 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Deaton, Helge Staby
• Is Part Of: Psychoanalytic study of the child. Volume 76:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 227
• Page End: 240
• Publication Date: 2023-12-31
• Subjects: Daycare -- consultation -- verbal communication -- nonverbal communication -- items used for playing -- use of play -- physical development -- mentalizing -- posture -- means of contact -- responsiveness; Child analysis -- Periodicals; Child Psychiatry; Psychology, Child; Psychoanalysis; Enfants -- Psychanalyse; Child analysis; Psychoanalyse; Kinderen; Kinderanalyse; Aufsatzsammlung; Periodicals; Periodicals; 155.4; 616.89
• DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2023.2166772
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0079-7308

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The work described illustrates the importance of active playing in childhood as a subjective activity from age two-and-one-half years up to at least five years old, as a means of communicating nonverbally, especially when words are not yet readily available. It is a young child's way of exploring the world and his own interests, while also communicating what matters to him emotionally. It requires adults to translate and understand what playing communicates and actually means, and why it matters emotionally. Playing enhances relationships and is useful in conveying and furthering interpersonal understanding, gradually becoming ever more verbal.