The story so far : play therapy narratives / edited by Ann Cattanach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The Story So Far: Play Therapy Narratives; Contents; Introduction; 1 When All the World was Slime; 2 The Self is a Telling: A Child's Tale of Alien Abduction; 3 Jeffrey the Dog: A Search for Shared Meaning; 4 All that Glitters is not Gold: The Adoption Process as a Rite of Passage; 5 In the Wake of the Monster: When Trauma Strikes; 6 The Wounded Hero; 7 Finding the Way Back Home: Children's Stories of Family Attachment; 8 The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Tracking a Life; 9 The Biography Laboratory: Co-creating in Community; Contributors; Subject Index; Name Index.

Identity is formed through the narration of experience, and children who experience difficult life events may need help in forming and expressing their own narratives. Play therapy can be a very appropriate way of facilitating this kind of expression. This book describes the work of nine play therapists through the narratives of children - and some adults - whose stories emerge during their play therapy sessions. These stories are not direct accounts of real happenings but are imaginative, metaphorical, complex and multi-layered. The life events they relate to include fostering, long-term illn.

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