Healthy Attachments and Neuro-Dramatic-Play
May 2011 · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Breaking new ground in the areas of attachment and child development, Sue Jennings introduces the concept of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play' exploring the sensory experiences that take place between mother and child during pregnancy and the first few months after birth. She explains how this interaction, that is essentially 'dramatic' in nature, is of crucial importance for the infant to develop a healthy brain, strong attachments and future resilience.
Based on sound experience and observation, this book consolidates current theories of neuroscience, attachment and therapeutic intervention and challenges commonly held psychoanalytic ideas of child development. By expanding on the often narrow view of what is understood by attachment, this book makes a strong case for early years inclusion of play and arts therapies. Neuro-Dramatic-Play is also discussed in relation to fostering and adoption, teenagers and young adults, and children with developmental or cognitive disabilities.
This accessible text will interest all therapists and practitioners who work with children and teenagers, including child psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, paediatric and perinatal nurses, paediatricians, child psychiatrists and play and arts therapists, and post-graduate students.
Based on sound experience and observation, this book consolidates current theories of neuroscience, attachment and therapeutic intervention and challenges commonly held psychoanalytic ideas of child development. By expanding on the often narrow view of what is understood by attachment, this book makes a strong case for early years inclusion of play and arts therapies. Neuro-Dramatic-Play is also discussed in relation to fostering and adoption, teenagers and young adults, and children with developmental or cognitive disabilities.
This accessible text will interest all therapists and practitioners who work with children and teenagers, including child psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, paediatric and perinatal nurses, paediatricians, child psychiatrists and play and arts therapists, and post-graduate students.
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Raluca Moșinoi
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January 24, 2024
I haven't read the book but I can and want to write a review: I had the opportunity of meeting and taking classes with E. Prendiville, the friend to whom this book is dedicated to. Sue also wrote me the most comprehensive dedication ever met in my life on "Where three roads met", a shakespearian metaphor. Where willour roads lead? I hope towards Peace, Sue! Because you worked all your lifefor it and it is unfair times we are living! No wonder, given the extraordinary modalities she has in approaching all aspects of...human nature! I know the context in which she prepared to write this book, since she kindly shared it. She feared "antisocial times", since 2010. I am convinced she had no "visions", no "shamanic premonitions". It was (and still is) her huge capacity to embrace all human aspects in uniques, ordered, common-sensed modalities. I admired her quietly during Covid, since she seemed to have restricted to "the badics" of NDP in online medium, tackling just the necessary in thise hard times. I hope she and Eileen will bump into this brief letter of gratitude I tried to pack here as a review. From Romania, a naughty neverending student, Raluca Moşinoi.
Lisa Lea-Weston Oak Practice/ Talking Heads
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January 25, 2014
About the author
Sue Jennings' career in professional theatre, play and dramatherapy, and social anthropology spans over 50 years. She is currently Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University, President of the Romanian Association of Play Therapy and Dramatherapy, Founder Member of the British Association of Dramatherapists and Dramatherapy Association of the Czech Republic. She is Honorary Advisor to WCCL (India) for their Arts become Healing training, and to the Irish Association of Play Therapy. In 2002 she was awarded the Gertrud Schattner Plaque for 'Excellence in Practice and Education in Drama Therapy'. She has published over 30 books, including Introduction to Developmental Playtherapy: Playing and Health and Introduction to Dramatherapy: Theatre and Healing - Ariadne's Ball of Thread, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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