Acknowledgements. Preface. Foreword by Dr Bruce Perry, Founder and Senior Fellow, Child Trauma Academy, Texas, USA. Part 1. The Roots of Life Story Therapy. 1. Introducing Life Story Therapy. 2. The Developing Brain, The Body, Trauma and Attachment. 3. Preparing for Life Story Therapy. Part 2. The Stages of Life Story Therapy. 4. The Information Bank. 5. Direct Work with Children. 6. Understanding the Process. 7. Internalisation and Wallpaper. 8. The Life Story Book and Outcomes. 9. Life Story Therapy and How it Relates to Other Forms of Therapy. References. Index.
How life story therapy can be implemented to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives; and to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers
Richard Rose is the Director of Therapeutic Life Story Work International (TLSWi) https://tlswi.com/about-tlswi/ which provides consultancy and training on Therapeutic Life Story Work and working with 'hard to reach' children and adolescents. Richard has worked with traumatised children and families since he was 17 years old, qualifying as a social worker in 1989. Richard is a regular visitor to Australia where he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University, Melbourne and Honorary Associate of Berry Street, Melbourne. He is also an Honorary Associate of the Open Adoption Institute, University of Sydney. He is a regular visitor to the USA, where he presents for Portland State University, DHS Oregon and ORPARC (Adoption Services).
I found it an easy book to read an would recommend it to peole who
work with traumatized children, such as social workers, support
workers, and arts therapists.
*Dramatherapy*
This 188 page book presents very clearly the roots and stages of
Life Story Therapy, adequately supported by clear diagrams. As the
author explains in the preface: he aims to show how life story
therapy can be considered a form of therapy in its own right and to
understand the potential of the intervention and find the practice,
the theory and the activities useful and creative for your own role
and professional approach... This reviewer heartedly agrees with
the author's view that templates, computer-generated life story
work or "All About Me" books off the shelf should not be used...
What may be less familiar is the study of how memories are held
within the body. This subject is covered in some very informative
pages... Each of these chapters contains a wealth of practical
techniques including the HIDE principles, movement boxes, ecomaps,
interviewing approaches, question types, the use of "Jenga" (tower
blocks), charades, "Feelings" theme chart, "All About Me" books,
fact - fiction - fantasy heroism template, the behaviour game, the
thinking game and the use wallpaper to paint the journey of the
child... For any Certified Play Therapist working with traumatised
children this is an essential book to enable you to consider adding
Life Story Therapy to your tool-kit. It is also recommended for
other qualified members who may be encourage to work with this
group of children combining this approach with their existing
skills.
*Play for Life*
Richard Rose's book will help professionals in many fields
(counsellors, social workers, family support workers, teachers and
guardians ad litem) to make difference to the psychological lives
of children by finding creative and sensitive ways to work with
painful parts of children's stories.
*BACP - Children & Young People*
The value and power of the Life Story approach to reconstructing
and reconnecting a child using personal narrative cannot be
underestimated, and the way that Richard Rose lays out the core
elements of this approach is both practical and elegant. This is a
refreshing and renewing clinical approach that is both
developmentally sensitive and "trauma-informed."
*From the Foreword by Bruce D. Perry, Senior Fellow, The Child
Trauma Academy, Houston, USA*
Good practice is promoted throughout this book. Rose's emphasis on
careful preparation and information gathering and the use of
various techniques, particularly wallpaper work, to help children
process and internalise past experiences is inspiring. Involving
primary carers in life story sessions to promote attunement and
attachment, and highlighting the importance of play in engaging
children in this highly sensitive work is an approach others should
strive to adopt.
*Joy Rees, Adoption Team Leader, Family Futures Associate and
author of Life Story Books for Adopted Children*
Richard Rose makes a solid case for placing life story therapy
alongside other important approaches for working with children who
have been traumatized. He emphasizes working through care givers
and using sensitive interventions to help the child explore and
make sense of his or her past in order to improve current
functioning. The book is loaded with specific techniques and
guidance so that therapists of all levels can begin using life
story therapy immediately in their practice.
*Todd Nichols, Executive Director, Family Attachment and Counseling
Center, Minnesota, USA, and co-author of Connecting with Kids
through Stories, 2nd edition*
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