Story So Far: Play Therapy Narratives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781843100638)

Identity is formed through the narration of experience, and children who experience difficult life events may need help in forming and expressing their own narratives. Play therapy can be a very appropriate way of facilitating this kind of expression. This book describes the work of nine play therapists through the narratives of children - and some adults - whose stories emerge during their play therapy sessions.

These stories are not direct accounts of real happenings but are imaginative, metaphorical, complex and multi-layered. The life events they relate to include fostering, long-term illness, and the traumatic death of a close adult. One chapter examines attachment in families and another describes the Biography Laboratory project exploring story creation through action research. This is a book in which professionals from many disciplines will find much to further their understanding of children's experiences and understanding of the world.

Author: Ann Cattanach
ISBN-10: 1843100630
ISBN-13: 9781843100638
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2002
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.24w x 0.56d