Unlike chiropody, the playwork profession is still finding its feet. It took the publication of The Principles and Practice of Chiropody in 1960 to raise chiropody's status within the medical profession and beyond. Forty-five years later, a handful of playwork's prominent thinkers drew up the Playwork Principles, enhancing the profession's credibility and serving as a unifying framework for the sector's subdivisions.
Reflective Playwork by Jacky Kilvington and Ali Wood uses the playwork principles as a structure to build an overview of playwork theory. There is plenty of practical guidance as well, mostly in the form of anecdotes yielded from the authors' long careers in playwork.
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