Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children : Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting

Golding, Kim S.; Killick, Steve (FRW); Hughes, Dan (FRW); Mcconville, Julia (ILT)

ISBN 10: 1849055408 / ISBN 13: 9781849055406

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children : Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849055408
• ISBN 13: 9781849055406
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: McConville, Julia
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kim S. Golding CBE, BSc, MSc, D. Clin. Psy. AFBPsS 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 was formerly on the board of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute supporting the use of DDP in Europe, USA and Canada. She accredits and trains professionals in the approach and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.