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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Richard, 1953-

Contributor:

Philpot, Terry.

Series:

Delivering recovery.

Delivering recovery

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychopathology.

Post-traumatic stress disorder in children--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610267088

9781280267086

1280267089

9781423710301

1423710304

9781846420566

1846420563

OCLC:

171579966