Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families outlines narrative and dramatic approaches to improve vulnerable family relationships. It provides a model which offers new ways for parents to practise communicating with their children and develop positive relationships. The book focuses on the Theatre of Attachment model - a highly innovative approach which draws from a strong theoretical base to demonstrate the importance of narrative and dramatic play for sharing the children’s life history in the family home with their adoptive, foster or kinship parents.
Key Features
- Innovative approaches to strengthen family relationships.
- Focus on the Theatre of Attachment model.
- Emphasis on fun ways to work through complex feelings.
- Aims to raise children’s self-esteem and communication skills.
- Addresses the effects of abuse, neglect and trauma on children’s development.
Additional Information
This practice model aims to secure attachment. This book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, universities and training bodies, service providers and practitioners involved in social work and creative therapies, child psychologists, child psychotherapists and public and private adoption and foster care agencies.
