Adventure Tales : A Framework for Therapeutic Story Creation by and for Children

Chapter Introduction -- chapter Getting started -- chapter Steps for organising an Adventure Tales group -- chapter 'How to be'- The therapeutic process in Adventure Tales -- chapter Session format -- part Captain's Log -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Meeting the Atex -- chapter 2 The Bottle -- chapter 3 The Misty Hollow -- chapter 4 The Storm -- chapter 5 Crossing the River -- chapter 6 Exploring -- chapter 7 The Cellar in the Ruins -- chapter 8 The Rescue -- chapter 9 Celebration Time!;"Almost all troubled children thrive in storytelling. However experience has shown that children with Aspergers' or autistic tendencies neither enjoy nor benefit from storytelling, they need a different approach; also children in crisis are better helped in one to one counselling. The Adventure Tales Resource is a practical guide to providing a weekly therapeutic storytelling group for troubled children aged 7-12 years, through one school term. The Guide provides a succinct, step by step method of setting up, organizing and running a storytelling group. It facilitates the production of the finished story for the group. It offers ways of how to be therapeutically with the group. It includes practical administration support with photocopiable proforma such as letters to parents, evaluation sheets. This practical resource will help to: develop inter and intra relationships; enhance emotional literacy; resolve emotional issues; improve ability to think round own problems; improve tolerance of difference; increase trust in others; stimulate the imagination; increase self esteem; increase the ability to express views clearly and calmly; increase confidence in literacy skills, especially reading."--Provided by publisher. Provides a weekly therapeutic storytelling group for troubled children aged 7-12 years, through one school term. This book offers ways of how to be therapeutically with the group. It includes practical administration support with photocopiable proforma such as letters to parents, evaluation sheets.