A Session by Session Guide to Life Story Work: A Practical Resource to Use with Looked After or Adopted Children

Life story work is a term often used to describe an approach that helps looked after and adopted children to talk and learn about their life experiences with the help of a trusted adult. This book is an essential step-by-step guide for carers and professionals seeking to carry out life story work with a traumatised or vulnerable child in their care. Underpinned by positive psychology and drawing on up-to-date research and real-life practice, the book offers a sound theoretical understanding of life story work as well as a practical and easy-to-use programme of sessions.

Each session covers the equipment and information needed, a consideration of who is best placed to carry out the work, and answers to commonly raised questions. Also discussed are age-appropriate approaches and ideas for extending each session into other activities and methods to make it more feasible for life story work to be a shared activity between two or three adults who know the child well. This book gives professionals and carers the confidence to carry out life story work in a way that is sensitive to the child's needs and positive for their self-perception and relationships.

Book Details

• Author: Gillian Shotton
• Publisher: Routledge
• eBook ISBN: 9781000194791, 1000194795
• Print ISBN: 9780367235222, 0367235226
• Other ISBNs: 9780429280160, 9780367557874, 9781000194777, 9781000194784