Therapeutic Fairy Tales

For Children and Families Going Through Troubling Times

Pia Jones, Sarah Pimenta

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000074093
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Psychology

Therapeutic Fairy Tales are a series of short, modern tales, dedicated to supporting young children through challenging situations of life and loss, covering diverse themes such as family breakdown, untreatable illness, and parental depression. Each short story is brought to life by engaging, gentle and colourful illustrations, and can be used by professionals and caregivers to support children's mental and emotional health.

This set also includes the Storybook Manual, which offers practical and creative ideas on how to use illustrated storybooks therapeutically. Exercises have been designed to encourage children's imagination and creativity, develop confidence and emotional literacy as well as deepen engagement and understanding of storybooks.

Books in the series include: Storybook Manual: An introduction to working with storybooks therapeutically and creatively, The Storm: For children growing through parent's separation, The Island: For children with a parent living with depression, The Night Crossing: A lullaby for children on life's last journey, Designed to be used with children aged six and above, each story has an accompanying online resource, offering therapeutic prompts and creative exercises to support the practitioner. These resources can also be adapted for wider use with siblings and other family members.

Storybook Manual: An Introduction To Working With Storybooks Therapeutically And Creatively

This resource has been designed to support practitioners and parents with practical and creative ideas on how to use illustrated storybooks therapeutically with children. Whilst this book is also available to purchase as part of a set, with three therapeutic fairy tales, all the content, worksheets and activities can be used with any illustrated story. Exercises have been created to encourage imagination and free play, develop confidence and emotional literacy as well as deepen engagement and understanding of stories. It is a book that can be returned to again and again to inspire creative engagement with stories with individuals or groups.

Key features include:

• An exploration of the importance of stories to modern life, and their use as a creative and therapeutic tool

• Guidance for working with stories and their illustrations, including conversation starters, prompts and worksheets for process-orientated creative activities

• Accompanying online activities designed for specific use with the storybooks in the Therapeutic Fairy Tales series

This is an invaluable resource for all professionals looking to work therapeutically with stories and images. It will be particularly valuable to those working in child and family mental and emotional health, social and youth care, community and participatory arts, school and education, and specialised health and hospital environments.

Pia Jones is an author, workshop facilitator and UKCP integrative arts psychotherapist, trained at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London. At the core of her practice, Pia uses arts and story to help children and adults connect with inner resources during times of loss, transition and change. You can find out more about her work at www.silverowlartstherapy.com

Sarah Pimenta is an experienced artist, lecturer in creativity and workshop facilitator with children and adults. Her specialist art form is print-making which brings texture, colour and emotion into a variety of educational, health and community environments in the UK and abroad. You can find out more about her work at www.social-fabric.co.uk

Therapeutic Fairy Tales

Pia Jones and Sarah Pimenta

978-0-367-25108-6

This unique therapeutic book series includes a range of beautifully illustrated and sensitively written fairy tales to support children who are experiencing trauma, distress and challenging experiences, as well as a manual designed to support the therapeutic use of story.

Titles in the series include:

Storybook Manual: An Introduction To Working With Storybooks Therapeutically And Creatively

978-0-367-49117-8

The Night Crossing: A Lullaby For Children On Life’s Last Journey

978-0-367-49120-8

The Island: For Children With A Parent Living With Depression

978-0-367-49198-7

The Storm: For Children Growing Through Parents’ Separation

978-0-367-49196-3

First published 2021

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jones, Pia, author. | Pimenta, Sarah, illustrator.

Title: Storybook manual : an introduction to working...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Storybook Manual
• The Night Crossing
• The Island
• The Storm