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

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Gillian Shotton (Educational Psychologist, Northumberland.)

A Session by Session Guide to Life Story Work

A Practical Resource to Use with Looked After or Adopted Children

Gillian Shotton (Educational Psychologist, Northumberland.)

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Routledge
13 October 2020

Adoption & fostering; Counselling & advice services; Educational psychology; Teaching of students with emotional & behavioural difficulties; Psychotherapy

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.

By: Gillian Shotton (Educational Psychologist Northumberland.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 802g
ISBN: 9780367557874
ISBN 10: 0367557878
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 13 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Gillian Shotton is an Educational Psychologist in Northumberland with a specialist remit for working in the children’s homes as well as carrying out work in schools. Gillian is also a field tutor on the doctorate course in Educational Psychology at Newcastle University and has written a number of books and journal articles.

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

A useful and practical book that describes a gentle approach (which is both simple and sophisticated) which is likely to in-fill emotional holes in the life history of a young person who is likely to have been maltreated. Dr R. J. (Sean) Cameron, writer and psychologist.