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Using stories to build bridges with traumatized children : creative ideas for therapy, life story work, direct work and parenting / Kim S. Golding.

By: Golding, Kim S [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 205 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849055406 (paperback).Subject(s): Psychic trauma in children -- Treatment | Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- Treatment | Storytelling | Narrative therapy | Foster home care | AdoptionAdditional physical formats: Electronic version:.: Using stories to build bridges with traumatized children : creative ideas for therapy, life story work, direct work and parenting.DDC classification: 618.928521 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Part I: Looking back and moving on: life in stories -- Part II: Coping in fear and without trust -- Part III: I will do it my myself -- Part IV: Keep noticing me -- Part V: Learning about relationships -- Part VI: Stories for parents -- Part VII: Stories for practitioners.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.

Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories to build connections with children aged 4-16 and support their recovery from trauma and stress. She illustrates the techniques with 21 stories adapted from her own clinical work with children and families, and explains how you can expand or adapt them to make them more relevant for a particular child. Advice and stories are arranged into sections dealing with common psychological issues, including looking back and moving on, lack of trust and need for attention. Golding also gives invaluable tips for planning stories and life story work, and for storymaking with children. She also describes how stories can be used therapeutically with parents of traumatized children and as a tool for self-reflection by counsellors.

Imaginative and practical, this book will be enormously useful for counsellors, psychologists, therapists and social workers working with traumatized children, and will also be helpful for parents and carers involved in therapeutic parenting.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-197) and index.

Part I: Looking back and moving on: life in stories -- Part II: Coping in fear and without trust -- Part III: I will do it my myself -- Part IV: Keep noticing me -- Part V: Learning about relationships -- Part VI: Stories for parents -- Part VII: Stories for practitioners.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. 13)
  • Foreword (p. 18)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 19)
  • Introduction (p. 21)
  • 1 The Power of Stories to Facilitate Healing for Children and Their Families (p. 26)
  • 2 'Once Upon a Time...': Creating Your Own Helping Stories (p. 32)
  • Introduction (p. 32)
  • Stimulating your creativity (p. 34)
  • Structure of stories (p. 36)
  • Story types (p. 38)
  • Conclusion (p. 47)
  • Part I Looking Back and Moving On: Life in Stories
  • Story 1 The Caterpillar That Did Not Want to Become a Butterfly (p. 50)
  • Story 2 Kirsty, the Cuckoo in the Nest (p. 54)
  • Story 3 The Puppy That Needed Healing (p. 60)
  • Notes about Part I (p. 64)
  • Part II Coping in Fear and without Trust
  • Story 4 Connor, the Supethero (p. 68)
  • Story 5 Millie and Her Mother (p. 75)
  • Story 6 In the Eye of the Storm (p. 80)
  • Notes about Part II (p. 86)
  • Part III I Will Do It by Myself
  • Story 7 Born to Care (p. 90)
  • Story 8 The Boy with all the Knowledge of the World in His Head (p. 95)
  • Story 9 The Mermaid's Song (p. 100)
  • Notes about Part III (p. 105)
  • Part IV Keep Noticing Me
  • Story 10 Melinda and the Golden Balloon (p. 108)
  • Story 11 The Clockmakers and the Cuckoo Clock (p. 113)
  • Story 12 The Space Boy (p. 119)
  • Notes about Part IV (p. 125)
  • Part V Learning about Relationships
  • Story 13 Survival of the Fittest (p. 128)
  • Story 14 A Mummy Finds Out How to Look After Her Baby (p. 136)
  • Story 15 Sally Sunshine and the Big Bag of Worries (p. 141)
  • Notes about Part V (p. 146)
  • Part VI Stories for Parents
  • Story 16 A Daughter's Tale (p. 150)
  • Story 17 William and Edward (p. 153)
  • Story 18 Longing and Belonging (p. 160)
  • Notes about Part VI (p. 167)
  • Part VII Stories for Practitioners
  • Story 19 The Finest Forest in all the Land (p. 170)
  • Story 20 Never You Mind (p. 175)
  • Story 21 Bridge Over Troubled Water (p. 180)
  • Notes about Part VII (p. 183)
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1 Planning a Solution Story (p. 186)
  • Appendix 2 Planning a Therapeutic Story (p. 188)
  • Appendix 3 Planning a Trauma Story (p. 190)
  • Appendix 4 Planning a Narrative to Explore Life Story (p. 192)
  • Appendix 5 Planning an Insight Story (p. 194)
  • References (p. 196)
  • Index (p. 198)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kim S. Golding is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children ¿ a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She accredits and trains professionals in the approach in the UK and has been invited to speak about this work internationally. She is the author of a number of books on attachment, adoption and fostering, including Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child, co-authored with Dan Hughes and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.