101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

with 12- to 14-year-old Puerto Rican adolescents they used stories of heroic male and female Puerto Ricans to offer cultural mod ...

framing story of the Zen master who came home to find his house burned down. He looked at the charred ruins and declared that at ...

Avoid Negative-Outcome Stories While it might seem obvious to say that we need to create positive-outcome stories rather than ne ...

Avoid Using the Stories Exactly as You Have Read Them If I may offer a suggestion, it is this: Use the stories I have offered as ...

more contact with others kids at school,” there is no need to weave complex or intricate metaphors to achieve the same end. Perh ...

therapeutic intervention, it will be most effective when specifically geared to the needs and objec- tives of that individual cl ...

I n this chapter my aim is to explain the processes I use to develop story ideas in therapy. Participants in metaphor workshops ...

informed clients. We are fortunate that we are in an age of therapy where we have some solid evi- dence about what therapeutic t ...

nosaurs or an Everest mountaineer (Story 72) demonstrates the skills and the benefits of those par- ticular styles in a way that ...

of fighting, sports heroes of competition and success, and angels and devils of good and evil. An un- derstanding of this can be ...

made mistakes and who was capable of learning from experience, willing to offer a gesture of kind- ness to somebody else who had ...

Children employ necessary defenses to psychologically negotiate the various stresses of illness, to help them feel more secure w ...

METAPHORS BUILT ON AN IDEA Often an idea, a one-liner, a joke, a statement, or a brief analogy can form the basis for building a ...

and emotional responses. She introduces the listener to the values of increasing sensory awareness and heightened stimulation. M ...

The exercise proved extremely interesting for a number of reasons. First, the problems on which these stories were centered were ...

as it was described in the story? These are the sorts of questions the therapist, teacher, parent, or care- giver might want to ...

yucky topic like Jack’s decision to cultivate his smelly socks in Story 25, “Build on What You Are Good At.” Naughty or mischiev ...

more Western context. “The Four Faithful Friends,” Story 34, is the much-loved national tale of Bhutan that is found painted on ...

circumstances. In the project with Helena College, children wrote a number of stories from which those in Chapter 13 were select ...

fect,” Story18), and learning how to be successful (“The Secrets of Success,” Story 70). There may be stories in events as simpl ...