Table of Contents
Section One: Understanding, Using and Creating Therapeutic Stories
This section has been expanded and organized in far greater detail than in the first edition of Therapeutic Stories to Heal Abused Children (1987) in order to provide provide historical background as well as the skills needed to create your own unique therapeutic stories. The first seven chapters include:
- Types of stories
- Metaphors and symbols
- Interpreting the meaning of a therapeutic story
- The structure of a therapeutic story
- Use the stories as they are written
- Changing the stories in very simple ways
- Changing the stories in more complex ways
- Using a therapeutic story's main idea, structure and/or metaphor of change to personalize and structure a new story
- Creating a unique therapeutic story
Section Two has many edited stories found in the first edition, along with many new stories
- Stories to empower
- Stories to empower & treat the symptoms of child abuse and other traumatic experiencesStories that develop healthy emotional reactions, thinking, perceptions, beliefs, self-image & social skills
- Stories to Aide in Disclosure of Traumatic Experiences and/or Abuse
- Stories for abused children who become abusers
- A story for children who must testify in court proceedings
- Stories for oppositional and rebellious children & adolescents
- Stories for problems related to parents, siblings, adoption, foster care and divorce
- Stories to Help Children Develop Age-appropriate Independence
- Stories to help with death, loss or illness
- Stories for Reduce and Eliminate Nightmares
- Stories for adolescents and adults