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Therapeutic Storywriting
Trisha Waters
ISBN 1 84312 116 6
David Fulton Publishers
Reviewed by the Editor of 'Play for Life' April 2006
Trisha Waters is a lecturer in Educational Counselling and
Therapeutic teaching. She has worked as a SENCO and class teacher in
both special and mainstream schools; and is also a trained
psychosynthesis therapist.
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Play Therapists normally use therapeutic
storytelling on a one-to-one basis. Interactive storytelling is also used,
often in groups. We know that writing and drawing can be valuable
therapeutic outlets. So a book combining all of these elements has a great
deal of promise. There is an increasing amount of interest in improving
emotional literacy in schools. This is to be applauded but it is attracting
a variety of approaches some of which are therapeutically sound others are
not. Hence an extended review to consider not only the content of the book
but the wider issues that are raised.
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