101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

the client. Self-disclosure was a concept that originated from psychodynamic theory with the intent of keeping the therapist’s i ...

THE PRO-APPROACH Having explored the various sources that form the bases on which to build therapeutic stories in the last chapt ...

necessarily going to provide the mechanisms to effect change? For this reason it is therapeutically beneficial to have a clear u ...

with his classmates rather than to kill them. This then becomes a workable therapeutic goal, and bal- ances the goal of the chil ...

parallels the problem rather than having primary focus on the outcome. One of the few exceptions, apart from this book and Burns ...

Story 3, “Kids Can Make a Difference: A Teen Story.” This is a story worthy of retelling because of the outcome. Trevor, an ordi ...

good at, he said riding his bike. He had a BMX bike that he rode competitively and did tricks with, so he already possessed an a ...

What is the Problem? Once you have defined the outcome of the story and the means or resources needed to reach the outcome, then ...

(Story 64), or the imaginative African explorer learning to weigh up the possibilities and make a decision (Story 67). In additi ...

sents the problem, engages the listener, and creates some mystery about what the character might do to find a resolution. Descri ...

In sum, a simple guide is to planthe metaphor in the order Outcome, Resources, Problem, and Character, then present or tell the ...

top, or wander by the waterhole and see the wrinkly-backed crocodile still trying to hide in the wa- ters, there is an instant r ...

T he emphasis of this book so far has been on professional caregivers telling therapeutic tales ei- ther toor in collaboration w ...

when they say, “A wealth of research has shown links between parenting style and child behaviour, and the development of conduct ...

SOME VALUES OF TEACHING PARENTS TO USE METAPHORS Yapko laments that “Storytelling seems to have become an art on the decline” (2 ...

stories, in words and behaviors, that will teach the child about values, problem-solving, relationships, and other necessary lif ...

tion may help youngstersdodifferent things but stories create experiences that enable them to bedif- ferent. Encouraging Desired ...

(The theme or outcome of the story may be defined with the parents in the therapy sessions, and the parents can then be coached ...

13, “Kids’ Own Healing Stories.” At the time of this story he was an eight-year-old who was terri- fied of birthday parties and ...

In walks his mother and says, “Food is on the table” and I think to myself, “Eat! Oh I’ll never be able” but you wouldn’t believ ...