“In the whole field of social work and that of education as well, there is urgent need of facts regarding the function of play and recreation in the education and reeducation of children, adolescents and adults. More or less permanent changes are known to have been wrought in persons through [sic] play activities in school children, normal and subnormal, hospitalized children, in youth, mentally ill youth and adults. While play is of great value in institutions concerned with the treatment of problem and anti-social behavior, or deviant behavior it is also a value in bringing about behavior change in all children, youth and adults afflicted with personality problems. In organized play or social groups especially those of children and adolescent youth, many individual personality problems are revealed and resolved. Many individual children are helped out of some distressing condition by play. Play may result in a release of the blockages by replacing them, the child developing out of them, or by outgrowing them.”
Neva Boyd
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