Assessing the Co-occupation of Joint Play

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Engagement in play contributes to children's development and wellbeing. Parents/caregivers hold a key role in promoting play. Participants will be introduced to the essentials of the co-occupation of joint play as well as how to assess it.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to identify the essentials of the co-occupation of joint play.
• At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to plan an evaluation of joint play. 

Earn up to 1.25 Contact hours

SPEAKERS 

Amiya Waldman-Levi

Amiya Waldman-Levi is an Associate Professor and the Director of Scholarship and Research at the Occupational Therapy Doctorate Program at Katz School of Science and Health, Yeshiva University. Amiya’s research focuses on promoting individuals, families, and caregiver’s resiliency to overcome the impact adversity has on their social-emotional functioning. Amiya has been studying joint play between children and their parent/caregiver and its contribution to their social-emotional functioning as well as playfulness across the lifespan. Amiya co-developed strength-based programs, the Family Interaction for Improving Occupational Performance Intervention model (FI-OP©), and Playing Playfully to Overcome Adversity telehealth, the group-based program for teachers and parents. Together with Anita Bundy, they developed an observation-based assessment, the Parent/Caregiver Support of Children’s Playfulness (PC-SCP). 

Anita Bundy

Anita Bundy is Professor and Department Head in Occupational Therapy at Colorado State University; she has an honorary appointment at the University of Sydney in Australia where she worked full time for 13 years. Anita has been a practitioner, educator, and researcher in the area of sensory integration. Together with colleague, Dr. Shelly Lane, she edited two editions of the textbook, Sensory Integration: Theory & Practice published by F. A. Davis. Anita has particular interest in assessing and promoting children’s play.” Much of her work in the last 20 years has been in promoting “risky play” by helping adults balance dignity of risk with duty of care. She developed two play-related assessments to help professionals promote play as the primary occupation of children: the Test of Playfulness (ToP) and the Test of Environmental Supportiveness (TOES) available in Play in Occupational Therapy for Children, a textbook edited by Diane Parham and Linda Fazio and published by Mosby. Together with Amiya Waldman-Levi, she recently co-authored the Parent/Caregiver Support of Children’s Playfulness (PC-SCP) published by the American Occupational Therapy Association.