@article{ref1,
title="War, toys, play to heal: priming designers to create playthings promoting resilience in children in war zones",
journal="International journal of play",
year="2022",
author="Leclerc, Rémi and McCarty, Brian",
volume="11",
number="1",
pages="58-76",
abstract="Trauma-related psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are highly prevalent in children in war zones; yet professional care is scarcely available. This leaves children and their families, often also affected by trauma, to live with unaddressed psychopathologies. This paper presents a framework for designing toys promoting resilience and support healing in children potentially traumatized by war. Structured around several workshops, it was introduced to undergraduate students within a toy design course in an east Asian University and facilitated by a transdisciplinary team consisting of the authors, a designer, and an artist, and expressive and play therapists working in war zones. Analysis of outcomes demonstrates that a short design workshop, albeit disconnected from the context of use, may appropriately redesign toys available in war zone markets as play therapy-inspired transitional or comfort objects supporting healing from war-related trauma. Feedback from therapists provided keys for further elaboration of the framework.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2159-4937",
doi="10.1080/21594937.2022.2042938",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2042938"
}