Storytelling to Encourage Caring and Healthy Families
Allison Cox & David Albert, eds. Packed with folk tales, personal stories, exercises, games, songs, and lessons learned, The Healing Heart – Families provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in encouraging resiliency, healthful behaviors, self-esteem, and mutual respect. This volume provides living models of storytelling used to promote health and prevent disease; encourage children with medical problems; energize classrooms; help individuals overcome grief; aid in building adoptive families; deconstruct prejudice; and develop empathy. The Healing Heart – Families is designed as a companion volume to The Healing Heart – Communities. Taken together, these two volumes are a collective effort reflecting the wisdom of over 66 storytellers, healing and human service professionals, writers, and educators on six continents who together make storytelling accessible to individuals, families, and communities. ISBN: [0865714665]
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