MOBILE TOY LIBRARY: THE INTERATIVE PLAYING AT THE CHILD’S HOSPITAL RECOVERING

Abstract

The hospitalization process can cause significant changes in the children’s everyday life because, besides the suffering caused by the disease, there are the invasive processes which bring them sorrow. Thus, aiming to make this state of sorrow lower and to contribute for the treatment process we developed in a hospital the Mobile Toy Library project which develops interactive activities through playing, trying to make the staying of these kids at the hospital easier. The team is formed by Psychology professors and students, who daily visit the children with a trolley full of toys in order to interact and play with them. We wait on 500 patients a year. We concluded the Mobile Toy Library provides ways for kids to elaborate their psychological conflicts, lowering their sorrow as well as their negative 1 Professor Doutor e Diretor da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, UNESP. 2 Professor Doutor e Coordenador do CPPA, Departamento de Psicologia Clínica, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, UNESP. 3 Graduada, Departamento de Psicologia Clínica, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, UNESP. 6 VASCONCELOS, M. S.; ABRÃO, J. L. F.; GOMES, V. S. Brinquedoteca móvel: o brincar interativo na hospitalização infantil. Rev. Ciênc. Ext. v.6, n.1, p.6, 2010. feelings of staying in hospital, and this helps them deal with the disease, family and medical team all together.