Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk

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This practical book will improve the play skills through storytelling and storywork of anyone working with children, especially with children 'at risk', such as looked-after children, or children suffering from trauma or abuse. It will enables the play worker to create a safe structure in order for children to play and through playing, share stories through movement, painting, clay, sandplay or drama. This book includes guidelines on all the play techniques and advice on unexpected disclosure or extreme reaction. Above all, this book puts the playing back into storywork, whereby the children are able to discover their own strengths and creative skills; to improve their forming of secure attachments with adults; to begin to understand their own behaviours and swings of mood and to understand the importance of communication in social skills. For one reason or another, many children in difficulty are excluded: from their school, their family, their social or cultural group. The methods in this book develop a framework of inclusion that brings some joy into the process of storytelling and integrates it as a social and cultural form for the benefit of children who are at risk.

Additional Information

Product number	52824
Catalogue page number	117 (Click here to view page)
Author	Sue Jennings
Number of Pages	192
Paper Size	N/A

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