Description: Almost all troubled children thrive in storytelling. However experience has shown that children with Aspergers’ or autistic tendencies neither enjoy nor benefit from storytelling, they need a different approach; also children in crisis are better helped in one to one counselling.\n\nThe Adventure Tales Resource is a practical guide to providing a weekly therapeutic storytelling group for troubled children aged 7-12 years, through one school term.\n\nThe guide provides a succinct, step by step method of setting up, organising and running a storytelling group. It facilitates the production of the finished story for the group. It offers ways of how to be therapeutically, with the group. It includes practical administration support with photocopiable proforma such as letters to parents and evaluation sheets.\n\nThis practical resource will help:\n• develop inter and intra relationships • enhance emotional literacy • resolve emotional issues • improve ability to think round own problems • improve tolerance of difference • increase trust in others • stimulate the imagination • increase self esteem • increase the ability to express views clearly and calmly • increase confidence in literacy skills, especially reading.

Author: Kazer, Barr

Publisher: Speechmark Publishing Ltd/TANDF

Year Published: 2015

Format: SPI

Target: primary school;

Keywords: Storytelling therapy for ASD; Emotional development; mental health; social skills;