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Hospitalization can cause short-term to long-term issues to children's biopsychosocial health. Play strategies have played a key role in preventing hospitalization trauma. Properly trained play specialists provide children with structured play activities that have proven to be effective in diminishing anxiety, depression, and negative emotions among in-patient children and their parents. These techniques are beneficial to ameliorating children's and parents' coping strategies and treatment compliance. However, discrepancies among countries' healthcare systems in recognizing the value of play highlights the need for major awareness in the field. The Handbook of Research on Play Specialism Strategies to Prevent Pediatric Hospitalization Trauma spreads knowledge about the potential of playing to protect and increase children's health during hospitalization. The book focuses on play strategies counteracting pediatric patients' trauma, anxiety, depression, and other biopsychosocial negative consequences. It discusses the rights of hospitalized children and the strengths of the play specialism approach. Covering topics such as chronically ill children, pediatric oncology, and culturally sustaining practices, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for child psychologists, psychotherapists, neuroscientists, pedagogists, psychiatrists, nurses, physicians, health sociologists, pediatricians, play specialists, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

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Prof. Giulia Perasso has a Ph.D. in Psychology, Neuroscience and Data Science at University of Pavia (Italy). After obtaining a MSc in Psychology (2015), she researched as visiting intern at Middlesex University (London, UK), approaching the theme of juvenile cybercrime (2016). In 2017, she obtained a Master's in Criminology at Sapienza Unitelma University, Rome, Italy. She is studying at the life circle school of the University of Milano-Bicocca to become a psychotherapist. Lately, she has focused her research work on developmental psychology, working at nonprofits (the Porto dei Piccoli in Genoa, the Patrizio Paoletti Foundation in Assisi, the David Chiossone Foundation in Genoa). In 2021 she led two international roundtables on the topic of play in the hospital, publishing as an outcome an opinion paper on Frontiers in Psychology. From these international experiences she decided to create a publishing project that would encapsulate various theoretical and operational insights for play specialism professionals around the world. Prof. Yagmur Ozturk has a Ph.D in Psychological Science and Education and works as an external research collaborator in Odf Lab (University of Trento) focusing on typical and atypical development and parenting. After obtaining a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, she studied child development and parenting, particularly focusing on families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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