Moore, Joan E.

Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children's Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families Using the 'Theatre of Attachment' Model. [electronic resource] : - London : Routledge, 2020. - 1 online resource (187 p.)

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Lists of figures; Foreword; Introduction; Theatre of Attachment; Who can use this model?; PhD study; Chapter synopsis; 1 Theatre; Introduction; Historical influences; Transformation -- Case example: Carys and Lizzie; Practice for life; Authenticity -- Case example: Louis; Role of audience -- Case example: Pritti; "Unblocking" -- Case example: Alissa; Containment -- Case example: Rowan; Resistance -- Case example: Nicky; Processes of change; Summary; 2 Safety; Introduction; Children's need of nurture and play; Safety in ritual; The setting for therapy Parent's role as witnessThe play space as boundary; A transitional space; Safe touch; Sensory play; Multi-sensory activity; Messy materials -- Case example: Carys; Paint -- Case example: Lizzie; Tim; Clay -- Case example: Luke and Alice; Sand; Physical play; Baby doll play -- Case example: Shana and Melody; Louis; Summary; 3 Role; Introduction; Applications of role; Preparing for role; Provider of structure; Role of "facilitator"; Role-modelling engagement -- Case example: Alice; Louis; Child's role as "expert" -- Case example: Shana and Melody; Child's role as "healer" Repairer of relationships -- Case example: LukeRole exchange; Role of "scaffolder" -- Case example: Carys; Role of "collaborator" -- Case example: Mark and Sharron; Lucy; Rowan; Role of "educator" -- Case example: Luke, Alice and Robbie; Shana and Melody; Pritti; Summary; 4 Story; Introduction; Historical use of stories; Hero stories -- Case example: Simon; Fairy tales; Therapeutic stories; Life stories; Building identity; How stories enable brain development; Problem-solving narratives; Reciprocal storytelling; Story structures; The "Storying Spiral" (Moore, 2018, 2019) The five stages of the Storying Spiral: Case example: Kirsten and EmmaSummary; 5 Attachment, trauma and play; Introduction; Contextualising attachment; Early experience; Environment v genes; Challenges to attachment theory; Attachment patterns; Case example -- Case example: Carys and Lizzie; Trauma; How the brain is made up; Invisibility of trauma; Addressing children's trauma -- Case example: Luke and Robbie; Playing; Play and the brain; Play and cultural identity; Parents' attitudes; Benefits of play; Processes of play -- Case example: Lizzie; Summary; 6 Life story and Theatre of Attachment IntroductionIdentity; Developing a coherent narrative; Writing the life story; Delivering the life story; Stories of equivalent adversity; Life maps -- Case example: Luke, Alice and Robbie; Water game -- Case example: Mark and Sharron; Clay -- Case example: Louis; Costume drama -- Case example: Gemma; Candle ceremonies -- Case example: Pritti; Children's reactions to difficult truths -- Case example: Rowan; Reworking childhood -- Case example: Jay; Secrets -- Case example: Lucy; Betrayal -- Case example: Billy; Summary; 7 Finding a balance; Introduction; Conflicts; Case examples -- Case example: Pritti

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. An emphasis is on having fun ways to work through complex feelings and divided loyalties, so as to secure attachment. This practice model aims to raise children's self-esteem and communication skills and to combat the profound effects of abuse, neglect on trauma on children's development. 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.

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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent
Attachment behavior in children.
Foster children--Psychology.
Adopted children--Psychology.

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