Understand your child’s play — or your client’s — through a clinical lens

Download the free Play Development Paradigm guide: a clear illustrated map of the five developmental stages of play from the child and adolescent psychotherapist and author of Can We Play Now? (Karnac Books, 2026)

  • The five stages of play explained simply and clearly
  • How each stage builds a specific developmental capacity and what it looks like when one is missed
  • A practical lens for reading a child’s or adult client’s play history
  • Grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and twenty years of clinical practice

 

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