- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Transcending Time, Place, and/or Circumstance: An Introduction
- Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children
- Fairy Tales, History, and Religion
- Magical Thinking
- Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths
- Distinguishing Imagination from Reality
- Children’s Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination
- Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood
- Child Witnesses and Imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity
- Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education
- Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination
- The Distinction Between Role-Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play
- How Do Children Represent Pretend Play?
- Culture, Narrative, and Imagination
- Flux and Flow in Children’s Narratives
- Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity
- Imaginary Relationships
- Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism Is Hair-Triggered but Not Hare-Brained
- Imagination and the Self
- Future Thinking in Young Children
- Counterfactuals and Reality
- Causality and Imagination
- What Children Understand About the Flow of Mental Life
- Imagination and Personal Creativity
- Individual Differences in the Development of Social Creativity
- The Relationship Between Pretend Play and Creativity
- The Creation of Imaginary Worlds
- The Influence of Television, Video Games, and the Internet on Children’s Creativity
- On the Evolution of Imagination and Design
- The Comparative Study of Imagination
- Imagination and Dissociation Across the Life Span
- The Development of Imagination in Children with Autism
- The Role of Pretend Play in Child Psychotherapy
- Imagination-Based Interventions with Children
- Telling Stories: Accessing Narrative Imagination for Use in Assessment with Clinical and Typical Populations
- Imagination and Coping with Chronic Illness
- Looking Ahead: Some Thoughts About Future Directions
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter covers the following topics: (1) interventions based on specific imaginative contents aimed at recruiting active coping (i.e., "Letter to the monster," Huggy-Puppy intervention); (2) guided imagery in exposure and relaxation techniques; (3) emotive imagery—a desensitization technique based on eliciting positive emotions and self-assertion in children using imaginative stories; and (4) the use imagination in other cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques. We review the available scientific evidence in support of specific interventions and their applicability for specific emotional problems.
Keywords: cognitive-behavioral therapy, guided imagery, imagery, imagination, psychotherapeutic interventions
Jana Porat, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Avi Sadeh, School of Psychological Services, Tel Aviv University
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Transcending Time, Place, and/or Circumstance: An Introduction
- Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children
- Fairy Tales, History, and Religion
- Magical Thinking
- Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths
- Distinguishing Imagination from Reality
- Children’s Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination
- Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood
- Child Witnesses and Imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity
- Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education
- Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination
- The Distinction Between Role-Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play
- How Do Children Represent Pretend Play?
- Culture, Narrative, and Imagination
- Flux and Flow in Children’s Narratives
- Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity
- Imaginary Relationships
- Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism Is Hair-Triggered but Not Hare-Brained
- Imagination and the Self
- Future Thinking in Young Children
- Counterfactuals and Reality
- Causality and Imagination
- What Children Understand About the Flow of Mental Life
- Imagination and Personal Creativity
- Individual Differences in the Development of Social Creativity
- The Relationship Between Pretend Play and Creativity
- The Creation of Imaginary Worlds
- The Influence of Television, Video Games, and the Internet on Children’s Creativity
- On the Evolution of Imagination and Design
- The Comparative Study of Imagination
- Imagination and Dissociation Across the Life Span
- The Development of Imagination in Children with Autism
- The Role of Pretend Play in Child Psychotherapy
- Imagination-Based Interventions with Children
- Telling Stories: Accessing Narrative Imagination for Use in Assessment with Clinical and Typical Populations
- Imagination and Coping with Chronic Illness
- Looking Ahead: Some Thoughts About Future Directions
- Index
