Overview

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 an appropriate way of facilitating this kind of expression. This manual 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 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.

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Author:   Ann Cattanach
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781843100638

ISBN 10:   1843100630
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 June 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. When All the World was Slime, Sally Hanson, North Wales. 2. The Self is a Telling: A Child's Tale of Alien Abduction, David le Vay, Surrey. 3. Jeffrey the Dog: A Search for Shared Meaning, Sue Allanson, NSPCC, Derbyshire. 4. All That Glitters is not Gold: Getting a Family, Ruth Watson, London. 5. In the Wake of the Monster: When Trauma Strikes, Alison Kelly, London. 6. The Wounded Hero, Maureen Scott-Nash, Hertfordshire. 7. Finding the Way Back Home: Children's Stories of Family Attachment, Sheila Hudd., London. 8. The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Tracking a Life, Ann Cattanach, Inverness-shire. 9. The Biography Laboratory: Co-creating in Community, Christine Novy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Index.

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The Story So Far: Play Therapy Narratives consists of a series of fascinating case studies from nine therapists using play therapy techniques. I like the variety of creative techniques used, the illustrations and photographs, and the wide range of issues. -- The Transactional Analyst

Author Information

Ann Cattanach is a play therapist and dramatherapist in private practice. She has wide experience of teaching and lecturing in drama, dramatherapy and speech communication, and has also worked as a child psychotherapist, family therapist and dramatherapist for Social Services and NHS Trusts. She has written many papers, articles and books, including Play Therapy: Where the Sky Meets the Underworld, Children's Stories in Play Therapy and Process in the Arts Therapies, also published by Jessica Kingsley.

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