Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children ─ Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting

Golding, a clinical psychologist, author, and trainer in the UK, demonstrates how to use stories with traumatized children ages four to 16 in counseling, life story work, or direct work. She presents 21 stories she has developed in her work with foster and adopted children and details how they can be expanded or adapted for individual children. Each includes background, the story type, themes, and the age range, and they relate to themes regarding looking back and moving on; coping with fear and without trust; controlling behaviors, self-reliance, and independence; attention; learning about relationships; and stories for parents and practitioners. She includes a chapter on story creation. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Kim S. Golding is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children – a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She accredits and trains professionals in the approach in the UK and has been invited to speak about this work internationally. She is the author of a number of books on attachment, adoption and fostering, including Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child, co-authored with Dan Hughes and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.