Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784504688
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work written by Richard Rose and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing. This new edited volume documents innovative ways in which life story work has been developed. It draws on the work of nine life story centres based around the world and provides understanding and guidance for those working with children who have experienced trauma. The book illustrates current theory and practice and looks at how the approach is being used in a variety of settings including schools, intensive services, youth justice, and post-adoption support, highlighting its versatility. The importance of trauma-informed practice when working with vulnerable children is emphasised throughout, to help practitioners provide the best for the children in their care.

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849052727
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children written by Richard Rose and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview for professionals working with traumatized children, which outlines the theory and practice of life story therapy, a method which helps children and cares to question and resolve issues and events within a child's life.

Author : Katie Wrench
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857006746
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted written by Katie Wrench and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more to this work than producing photo albums or memory boxes for children. This accessible book is full of tried and tested activities and creative ideas for professionals, parents and carers who may have little time and few resources, but who need to carry out life story work that works for children. The authors describe the optimum conditions in which to carry out life story work and feature activities to accompany each of the necessary stages: creating a sense of safety, emotional literacy, building resilience, exploring identity, sharing information and looking to the future. This book will be a vital tool for social workers, foster carers, adopters, students and any frontline practitioners involved in working with traumatised children.

Author : Simon P. Hammond
Publisher : British Association for Adoption & Fostering(BAAF)
ISBN 13 : 9781907585678
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Life Story Work written by Simon P. Hammond and published by British Association for Adoption & Fostering(BAAF). This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative guide brings the benefits of life story work - traditionally undertaken with younger children - to young people and adolescents. It describes how to use computers, free software, smartphones and camcorders in a range of contemporary and exciting ways. With an intensely practical approach it outlines a series of fun and engaging projects on which the practitioner and young person can work together, including photo collages, making soundtracks, creating cartoons, and filming guided walks, all designed to help young people make sense of their history.

Author : Geri Giebel Chavis
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849058326
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Story Therapy written by Geri Giebel Chavis and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible book explores the therapeutic possibilities of poetry and stories, providing techniques for facilitating personally relevant and growth-enhancing sessions. The author provides ideas for writing activities that emerge from this discussion, and explains how participants can create their own poetic and narrative pieces.

Author : Gillian Shotton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000194795
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Session by Session Guide to Life Story Work written by Gillian Shotton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life story work is a term often used to describe an approach that helps looked after and adopted children to talk and learn about their life experiences with the help of a trusted adult. This book is an essential step-by-step guide for carers and professionals seeking to carry out life story work with a traumatised or vulnerable child in their care. Underpinned by positive psychology and drawing on up-to-date research and real-life practice, the book offers a sound theoretical understanding of life story work as well as a practical and easy-to-use programme of sessions. Each session covers the equipment and information needed, a consideration of who is best placed to carry out the work, and answers to commonly raised questions. Also discussed are age-appropriate approaches and ideas for extending each session into other activities and methods to make it more feasible for life story work to be a shared activity between two or three adults who know the child well. This book gives professionals and carers the confidence to carry out life story work in a way that is sensitive to the child’s needs and positive for their self-perception and relationships.

Author : Bruce St Thomas
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781846426247
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empowering Children through Art and Expression written by Bruce St Thomas and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Children through Art and Expression examines the successful use of arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those whose lives have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a different culture or community. The book explores how children express and resolve unspoken feelings about traumatic experiences in play and other creative activities, based on their observations of peer support groups, outreach programs and through individuals' own accounts. The authors argue that such activities in a safe context can be both a means of expressing trauma and a coping strategy for children to overcome it. This book combines personal and professional perspectives, using case examples as well as the authors' own childhood experiences, to demonstrate practical strategies for use with children, from drama and storytelling to sculpting with clay. It also equips the reader with knowledge of the theory behind these intervention techniques. This book will be a valuable resource for professionals working with traumatized children who have experienced loss, grief, relocation and other kinds of trauma.

Author : Tony Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873868102
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Work written by Tony Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kedar Nath Dwivedi
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857003569
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children and Adolescents in Trauma written by Kedar Nath Dwivedi and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development. They discuss the impact of abuse and mistreatment upon the mental health of 'looked after' children, drawing links between psychoanalytic theory and practice and the study of literature and the arts. This indispensable book provides useful insights and a fresh perspective for anyone working with traumatised children and adolescents, including social workers, psychotherapists, arts therapists, psychiatrists, counsellors, psychologists and students in these fields.

Author : Joan E. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000768252
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families written by Joan E. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families outlines narrative and dramatic approaches to improve vulnerable family relationships. It provides a model which offers new ways for parents to practise communicating with their children and develop positive relationships. The book focuses on the Theatre of Attachment model - a highly innovative approach which draws from a strong theoretical base to demonstrate the importance of narrative and dramatic play for sharing the children’s life history in the family home with their adoptive, foster or kinship parents. An emphasis is on having fun ways to work through complex feelings and divided loyalties, so as to secure attachment. This practice model aims to raise children’s self-esteem and communication skills and to combat the profound effects of abuse, neglect on trauma on children’s development. This book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, universities and Training bodies, service providers and practitioners involved in social work and creative therapies, child psychologists, child psychotherapists and public and private adoption and foster care agencies.