The Child's Own Story

Life Story Work with Traumatized Children

Richard Rose and Terry Philpot
Foreword by Mary Walsh

Part of the Delivering Recovery series

Paperback: £15.99 / $29.95

2004, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-287-8, BIC 2: JKSB1 JHBK

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Helping traumatized children develop the story of their life and the lives of people closest to them is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help children and young people recover from abuse and make sense of a disrupted upbringing in multiple homes or families.

The authors explain the concepts of attachment, separation, loss and identity, using these contexts to describe how to use techniques such as family trees, wallpaper work, and eco- and geno-scaling. They offer guidance on interviewing relatives and carers, and how to gain access to key documentation, including social workers' case files, legal papers, and health, registrar and police records.

This sensitive, practice-focused guide to life story work includes case examples and exercises, and is an invaluable resource for social workers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term foster carers and other professionals working with traumatized children.

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Author information

• Richard Rose
• Terry Philpot

Subject areas

• Working with Children and Families
• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• adoption,
• challenging behaviour,
• child protection,
• child psychology,
• children,
• counselling,
• emotions,
• fostering,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychotherapy,
• social care,
• social stories,
• social work,
• trauma

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