TY - BOOK AU - Cattanach,Ann TI - The story so far: play therapy narratives SN - 1417501634 AV - RJ505.P6 S76 2002eb U1 - 618.92/891653 22 PY - 2002/// CY - London, Philadelphia PB - Jessica Kingsley Pub. KW - Play therapy KW - Case studies KW - Narrative therapy KW - Play KW - Psychological aspects KW - Mental health counseling KW - Children KW - Play Therapy KW - Child KW - Ludothérapie KW - Études de cas KW - Thérapie narrative KW - Jeu KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Counseling KW - Santé mentale KW - Enfants KW - children (people by age group) KW - aat KW - Child Welfare KW - bicssc KW - MEDICAL KW - Psychiatry KW - Child & Adolescent KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic book KW - Case Reports KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=105649 ER -