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Udwin, Orlee – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Children who had been removed from deleterious family environments were exposed to 10 sessions of imaginative play training. When compared with matched controls, experimental subjects showed significant post training increments in imagination, positive emotionality, prosocial behaviors, and storytelling skills and decreases in overt aggression.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Child Neglect, Creative Thinking

Udwin, Orlee – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Seventeen children who had been removed from deleterious family backgrounds and placed in institutional care were exposed to imaginative play training. They showed significant increments in levels of imaginative play, positive emotionality, prosocial behaviors, and in measures of divergent thinking and story-telling skills, and decreases in levels…
Descriptors: Aggression, Divergent Thinking, Dramatic Play, Educational Psychology