Storybook Manual : An Introduction to Working with Storybooks Therapeutically and Creatively.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Storybook Manual -- Chapter 1: Background: The ancient art of storytelling -- The ancient art of storytelling -- Using story and metaphor to make sense of the unknown and unfamiliar -- Fairy tales, picture books and storytelling in modern culture -- The bedtime story ritual -- Chapter 2: Introduction to working with storybooks therapeutically and creatively, aims and benefits -- Working with storybooks therapeutically and creatively -- The use of storybooks to help promote therapeutic art-making -- Storybooks as a creative tool to explore existential challenges -- Storytelling and storybooks as a prompt to explore the therapeutic relationship -- Chapter 3: Setting the scene for safe therapeutic and creative storytelling -- Creating the right conditions -- Attending to psychological processes evoked in the child and practitioner -- Getting ready to listen to and notice children's responses to the story -- Getting ready to enter the world of metaphor and speak its language -- Chapter 4: Working with story -- Suggestions for conversation starters and prompts -- Example worksheets for process-orientated story activities -- Chapter 5: Using stories and storybooks as a basis for creative art-making exercises -- Building upon the story - setting the scene for creative art-makingexercises -- Guiding principles behind building a creative mindset -- Creative materials and storage of children's artwork -- Helping children warm up with spontaneous creative exercises -- An introduction to using creative art-making to explore and expand upon storybooks -- Top tips to remember when working with children and art-making exercises -- Example worksheets for process-orientated warm-up creative activities.

Example worksheets for process-orientated creative art-makingactivities -- Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Permissions.

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