Life Story Works

 
This guide will provide you with: Ideas, techniques and words to use when helping children understand complex and difficult events in their lives. See DIFFICULT STORIES and the exercises at the end of each section on How to Make a Life Story Book. A step by step guide on how to make a Life Story Book Useful books, websites, templates and examples of Life Story Books. This site is aimed at adopters. It could also be helpful to social workers and carers of children from complex backgrounds. Parts of it may be helpful to any parent whose children have been affected by disruption or trauma. The contents were developed by an adoptive parent and a social worker with first hand experience in life story work. We both realised that through doing this work early in a young person’s life, a burden of emptiness, rejection, shame, confusion and fantasy can be addressed. While it is by no means a magic fix, having a Life Story Book is often seen by child therapists as a prerequisite to therapeutic work. For most of us, there is a need to know where we come from, in order to better understand who we are today and this principle informs life story work. Our section on DIFFICULT STORIES aims to offer child friendly and age appropriate ways to talk about topics that are important to understand, but which are sometimes difficult to explain. Examples are: separations from birth family members, issues connected to drug abuse, mental health and child abuse. It is because of these complex subjects that many adopters and social workers can find answering questions such as ‘Why was I adopted?’ difficult to explain and may avoid answering them. We aim to provide examples of how to explain difficult subjects in a way that helps a younger person make sense of their past and move forward with increased confidence and understanding.DIFFICULT_STORIES.htmlLIFE_STORY_BOOK.htmlDIFFICULT_STORIES.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2

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