1st Edition

Therapeutic Storywriting A Practical Guide to Developing Emotional Literacy in Primary Schools

By Trisha Waters Copyright 2004
    128 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    128 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting.

    Foreword; Introduction; What is therapeutic storywriting?; The significance of story metaphor; Story as a narrative of identity; Working with groups; Individual work; Receiving the child's story; The teacher's story; Use of guided visualisation

    Biography

    Trisha Waters