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The child's own story : life story work with traumatized children / Richard Rose and Terry Philpot ; foreword by Mary Walsh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Delivering recoveryPublication details: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1423710304
  • 9781423710301
  • 9781843102878
  • 1843102870
  • 9781846420566
  • 1846420563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Child's own story.DDC classification:
  • 618.9/2852106 22
LOC classification:
  • RJ506.P55 R67 2005eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 M-610
  • WS 350
Other classification:
  • R749. 94
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: No Child is an Island; 1. Who Am I? The Importance of Identity and Meaning; 2. A Tale of Two Children; 3. The Truth and Something Other Than the Truth; 4. Interviewing Art not Science; 5. Safe at Last Providing a Safe and Stable Environment; 6. Internalization Towards an Understanding; 7. Making the Book; 8. But Does It Really Work Like This?; 9. Life After Life Story; Notes; References; The Story of SACCS; The Authors; Subject Index; Author Index.
Summary: Helping traumatized children develop a narrative about their life and the lives of people closest to them, is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help children and young people recover from abuse and make sense of a disrupted upbringing in multiple homes or families. Explaining the concepts of attachment, separation, loss and identity, the authors use these as a context to describe how to use techniques such as family trees, wallpaper work, ec.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and indexes.

Print version record.

Cover; The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: No Child is an Island; 1. Who Am I? The Importance of Identity and Meaning; 2. A Tale of Two Children; 3. The Truth and Something Other Than the Truth; 4. Interviewing Art not Science; 5. Safe at Last Providing a Safe and Stable Environment; 6. Internalization Towards an Understanding; 7. Making the Book; 8. But Does It Really Work Like This?; 9. Life After Life Story; Notes; References; The Story of SACCS; The Authors; Subject Index; Author Index.

Helping traumatized children develop a narrative about their life and the lives of people closest to them, is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help children and young people recover from abuse and make sense of a disrupted upbringing in multiple homes or families. Explaining the concepts of attachment, separation, loss and identity, the authors use these as a context to describe how to use techniques such as family trees, wallpaper work, ec.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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