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The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children
Helping traumatized children develop the story of 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. The authors explain the concepts of attachment, separation, loss and identity, using these contexts to describe how to use techniques such as family trees, wallpaper work, and eco- and geno-scaling. They offer guidance on interviewing relatives and carers, and how to gain access to key documentation, including social workers' case files, legal papers, and health, registrar and police records. This sensitive, practice-focused guide to life story work includes case examples and exercises, and is an invaluable resource for social workers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term foster carers and other professionals working with traumatized children.
160 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2004
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May 9, 2017
This is a book aimed more at social workers and professionals, not so much at parents.
I found the title misleading. I was expecting lot of practical ideas for Life Story Work as in Katie Wrench's excellent book "Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted". I found a lot of the information irrelevant or too basic. For instance, this books gives advise on how to interview people who were relevant in the child's life. That is something very few adoptive parents will do. There is information on attachment theory, but I have yet to meet the social worker or adoptive parent who doesn't know the basics of attachment theory. Some of the information and ideas I found useful, for instance to do the life story work on a roll of wallpaper to illustrate continuity.
I found the title misleading. I was expecting lot of practical ideas for Life Story Work as in Katie Wrench's excellent book "Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted". I found a lot of the information irrelevant or too basic. For instance, this books gives advise on how to interview people who were relevant in the child's life. That is something very few adoptive parents will do. There is information on attachment theory, but I have yet to meet the social worker or adoptive parent who doesn't know the basics of attachment theory. Some of the information and ideas I found useful, for instance to do the life story work on a roll of wallpaper to illustrate continuity.
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