Foreword. Steve Killick, Clinical Psychologist and Storyteller. Introduction. 1. The Power of Stories for Facilitating Healing for Children and their Families. 2. 'Once upon a time...' Creating Your Own Stories. Section One: Looking Back and Moving On, Life in Stories. 3. Story One: The Caterpillar Who Did not Want to Become a Butterfly. 4. Story Two: Kirsty, the Cuckoo in the Nest. 5. Story Three: The Puppy Who needed healing. Section Two: Coping in Fear and Without Trust. 6. Story Four: Conner the Superhero. 7. Story Five: Millie and Her Mother. 8. Story Six: In the Eye of the Storm. Section Three: I Will Do It By Myself. 9. Story Seven: Born to Care. 10. Story Eight: The Boy with all the Knowledge of the World in His Head. 11. Story Nine: The Mermaid's Song. Section Four: Keep Noticing Me. 12. Story Ten: Melinda and the Golden Balloon. 13. Story Eleven: The Clockmakers and the Cuckoo Clock. 14. Story Twelve: The Space Boy. Section Five: Learning About Relationships. 15. Story Thirteen: Survival of the Fittest. 16. Story Fourteen: A Mummy Finds out how to Look After her Baby. 17. Story Fifteen: Sally Sunshine and the Big Bag of Worries. Section Six: Stories for Parents. 18. Story Sixteen: A Daughter's Tale. 19. Story Seventeen: William and Edward. 20. Story Eighteen: Longing and Belonging. Section Seven: Stories for the Practitioners. 21. Story Nineteen: The Finest Forest in all the Land. 22. Story Twenty: Never You Mind. 23. Story Twenty One: Bridge over Troubled Water. Appendix 1. Planning a Solution Story. Appendix 2. Planning a Therapeutic Story. Appendix 3. Planning a Trauma Story. Appendix 4. Planning a Narrative to Explore Life Story. Appendix 5. Planning an Insight Story. References.
Creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work
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 is 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 in the UK and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.
The stories in this book, created from both the realities of
children's lives and a liberating imagination, show how storymaking
and storytelling can help children understand themselves better and
see themselves differently. It illustrates, as stories clearly can,
the almost magical power of storytelling to transform and heal. Kim
tells us her process of developing stories and then shows us the
stories allowing us to see how powerful they are. When I first read
them I thought of many children I've worked with and felt closer to
them, that I understood them better and, in turn, become more
curious about their experience. Kim shows us what we can do when we
start thinking about the children we work with using imagination
and creativity.
*From the Foreword by Dr. Steve Killick, Clinical Psychologist,
Cardiff University, and Storyteller*
This book provides a cogent model for understanding the
applications of stories to therapy and counselling as well as
articulate advice about developing therapeutic, solution-based, and
personalized stories to enhance trauma recovery. It is a book that
I will return to on a regular basis and a "must-have" volume for
counsellors, social workers, psychologists, creative arts
therapists and trauma specialists.
*Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT, Trauma-Informed
Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute and President, Art
Therapy Without Borders*
Kim Golding is truly both an excellent psychologist, teacher, and
writer while at the same time being a wonderful story creator. This
is a work to read deeply and to keep nearby as we use stories to
help children, their families, and ourselves to make sense of our
life long journeys.
*From the foreword by Dan Hughes, psychologist and founder of
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, author of Attachment-Focused
Family Therapy Workbook*
Practitioners will easily identify themes in these stories, which
will have resonance for many of the children and families they work
with. This book may also inspire some to "have a go" at writing
their own therapeutic stories, and the structure suggested and
underlying principles are equally relevant to compiling life story
books for children.
*Joy Rees, adoption adviser, social work consultant, trainer and
author of Life Story Books for Adopted Children*
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