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Helping children with fear: a guidebook
- Author:
- SUNDERLAND Margot
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 131p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Milton Keynes
This is one of a series of nine illustrated books and companion guidebooks that use story telling as a therapeutic tool to help young children who have troubled lives think about and connect with their feelings. In this story, Teenie Weenie experiences what it is like to feel very small in a really scary place until he finds friends and joins with others to learn how tackling things together can make them seem less frightening. The guidebook describes the common psychological origins and most relevant psychotherapeutic theories for the problems addressed. It looks at how some children develop a fearful attitude to life, what life is like for them and how to enable them to speak out and work through their fear. The author includes enacted stories and statements made by children, photocopiable exercises designed to help children think about, express and digest the issues, and further suggested reading. The pack is intended to enable child professionals to recognise the unresolved feelings behind behaviour and to respond correctly to help the child work through that feeling to the point of resolution.