1. A Historical Perspective on Children's Drawings 2. Children's Drawings in Context 3. Working with Children and Their Drawings 4. Developmental Aspects of Children's Drawings 5. Emotional Content of Children's Drawings 6. Interpersonal Aspects of Children's Drawings 7. Somatic and Spiritual Aspects of Children's Drawings 8. Ethical Considerations and Children's Drawings Appendix: Materials and Resources.

Understanding Children's Drawings

Reporting possible sexual abuse: a qualitative study on children's perspectives and the context for disclosure.

This paper is a review of current practice in narrative therapy with a focus on how it is attractive and useful for therapists who wish to work for social justice. The authors describe narrative therapy’s roots in poststructuralist philosophy and social science. They illustrate its major theoretical constructs, including the narrative metaphor, Foucault’s notion of “modern power,” and narrative therapy’s emphasis on problems as separate from people. The authors then describe specific practices: narrative questions, externalizing conversations, utilizing the “absent but implicit,” the development and “thickening” of preferred stories, the documentation of preferred stories, outsider witness practices, and practices for connecting people around shared purposes. After reviewing research that supports narrative therapy as useful and effective, the authors specifically address the ways narrative therapy deals with issues of social justice, showing how its focus on the discourses of modern power helps therapist...

Narrative, Poststructuralism, and Social Justice Current Practices in Narrative Therapy

This article offers a framework for collaborative family-centered practice that can reinvigorate our work with families who have not responded to more traditional approaches. Collaborative Helping is grounded in family-centered principles that include: striving for cultural curiosity, believing in resourcefulness, working in partnership, and making our work more accountable to the clients we serve. The article introduces collaborative inquiry as an organizing metaphor for clinical practice and offers a five-step practice framework with clinical illustrations and sample questions. The framework draws from appreciative inquiry, motivational interviewing, the signs of safety approach to child protection work, and solution-focused and narrative therapies.

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Collaborative Helping: A Practice Framework for Family-Centered Services

Within the last decade, a national prevention research, training, and practice agenda on mental health has been established to address the epidemiological increases in mental disorders and associated emotional and financial costs to individuals, families, and communities. In this article, the author reviews theoretical, empirical, and public policy support in favor of prevention science that inherently includes a broad positive mental health orientation with an emphasis on mental health promotion processes. Prevention within the mental health field needs to include not only minimizing mental disorders, but also enhancing positive qualities of daily functioning. The socioeconomic and cultural context of positive mental health is emphasized with particular attention given to the interrelatedness of individual, family, and community "collective sense of well being." Nursing and interdisciplinary contributions are reviewed, noting implications for future public policy and service system changes. Innovative ways to enhance mental health will require study of system integration across primary and mental health services as well as incorporating services within societal institutions such as schools and the workplace.

Positive mental health: a turn of the century perspective.

This book describes a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques that clear the way for stories of hope, possibility, and change. Compelling case examples, drawn from the authors' work, will appeal to parents and educators as well as therapists.

Playful approaches to serious problems : narrative therapy with children and their families

Terapia narrativa para niños: aproximación a los conflictos familiares a través del juego

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Playful approaches to serious problems : narrative therapy with children and their families

Terapia narrativa para niños: aproximación a los conflictos familiares a través del juego