Play then starts to become more complex turning into socio-dramatic play where children make-believe play with others and then by age 4 to 5 they start to build on one another's play ideas coordinating with several different roles that follow a particular story line (Berk, 2013, p. 240). ...
A second baseline score was obtained one week after the story was administered. On measures of cognitive anger, mean scores increased significantly after the story was heard. ... In the second program, empathy was developed using drama and stories. ... Students also used puppets to act out stories about making friends, and later discussed the stories and the emotions of their characters. ... The story was not discussed in relation to the YCEM. ...
According to Bluebond-Langner (1978): ...The decision should be made by the same rule of thumb that is applied in decided what to tell children about sex: Tell them only what they want to know, what they are asking about, and on their own terms. ... Story or imagination therapy can be especially helpful for children. Donna O"Toole (1995) says that, "For children the actual story, and the playing out of the story, can be resolution in itself" (p. 24). She goes on to explain that while older children can write out a story, for younger children, play-acting and storytelling is one and the sa...
