Once upon a time…
£14.95
Direct work is an important and valuable part of helping traumatised children to deal with difficult early experiences. In particular, creative and story-based play can have a vital role in the healing process, promoting the child's understanding, encouraging greater engagement between child and worker/carer, and providing a non-threatening way for the child to discuss what has happened to them, with the medium of fiction providing a distancing "safety net".
Once upon a time... will inform, educate and stimulate. It contains a rich compendium of stories and drama - original, adapted, popular and made up by children - which explore how using storytelling and play in direct work can help both parents/carers and their child to build rapport and improve their relationship.
This book is for child care professionals working with adopted and fostered children, adoptive parents and foster carers.
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Reviews
The author has created a very useful tool for charting and evaluating the child’s progress, which covers the adoptive/foster family, the child’s developmental history and current situation, and ways to measure the emotional impact during the course of the play, development of imaginative and relational skills, control of affect (feelings), health and self care, progress in school and relationships at home.
Dr Barbara Mitchels, Seen & Heard