Storybook Manual An Introduction to Working with Storybooks Therapeutically and Creatively.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Jones, Pia
Other Authors: Pimenta, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
Series:Therapeutic Fairy Tales Ser.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to the Storybook Manual
  • Chapter 1: Background: The ancient art of storytelling
  • The ancient art of storytelling
  • Using story and metaphor to make sense of the unknown and unfamiliar
  • Fairy tales, picture books and storytelling in modern culture
  • The bedtime story ritual
  • Chapter 2: Introduction to working with storybooks therapeutically and creatively, aims and benefits
  • Working with storybooks therapeutically and creatively
  • The use of storybooks to help promote therapeutic art-making
  • Storybooks as a creative tool to explore existential challenges
  • Storytelling and storybooks as a prompt to explore the therapeutic relationship
  • Chapter 3: Setting the scene for safe therapeutic and creative storytelling
  • Creating the right conditions
  • Attending to psychological processes evoked in the child and practitioner
  • Getting ready to listen to and notice children's responses to the story
  • Getting ready to enter the world of metaphor and speak its language
  • Chapter 4: Working with story
  • Suggestions for conversation starters and prompts
  • Example worksheets for process-orientated story activities
  • Chapter 5: Using stories and storybooks as a basis for creative art-making exercises
  • Building upon the story
  • setting the scene for creative art-makingexercises
  • Guiding principles behind building a creative mindset
  • Creative materials and storage of children's artwork
  • Helping children warm up with spontaneous creative exercises
  • An introduction to using creative art-making to explore and expand upon storybooks
  • Top tips to remember when working with children and art-making exercises
  • Example worksheets for process-orientated warm-up creative activities
  • Example worksheets for process-orientated creative art-makingactivities
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Permissions