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101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy by George W. Burns
Table of Contents
Introduction
What This Book Offers
A Word or Two about Words
Oral versus Written Stories
The Structure of This Book
Story 1 A Story of the Story
PART I EFFECTIVE STORYTELLING FOR KIDS AND TEENS
Chapter 1 The Magic of Metaphor
Why Tell Healing and Teaching
Stories to Kids and Teens?
A Brief History of Teaching Tales
How Stories Inform
How Stories Educate
How Stories Teach Values
How Stories Discipline
How Stories Build Experience
How Stories Facilitate Problem-Solving
How Stories Change and Heal
When Not to Speak in Stories
Chapter 2 Guidelines for
Effective Storytelling
Ten Guidelines for Effective
Storytelling
Six Guidelines for the
Storyteller’s Voice
Chapter 3 Tools and Techniques
Books as a Source of Healing
Stories: Bibliotherapy
Drama as a Source of Healing
Stories
Videos or DVDs as a Source of Healing
Stories: Videotherapy
Puppets Dolls and Toys as Metaphor
Play as Metaphor
Humor as a Metaphor
Experiential Metaphors
Child-Generated Metaphors
Collaborative Tales
To Discuss or Not to Discuss?
PART II HEALING STORIES TEACHING STORIES
Chapter 4 Enriching Learning
Story 2 Kids Can Make a
Difference: A Kid Story
Story 3 Kids Can Make a
Difference: A Teen Story
Story 4 Feed What You Want to
Grow
Story 5 Look after Yourself
Story 6 Come up Laughing
Story 7 It’s in the Way You Do It
Story 8 Making the Most of What
You Are Given
Story 9 Doing What You Can
Story 10 Seeking Happiness
Chapter 5 Caring for Yourself
Story 11 Soaring to New Heights:
A Kid Story
Story 12 Soaring to New Heights:
A Teen Story
Story 13 Recognizing Your
Abilities
Story 14 Let Joe Do It
Story 15 Discovering Your
Specialness
Story 16 The Importance of
Accepting Compliments
Story 17 What You Give Is What
You Get
Story 18 Good Not Perfect
Story 19 Be Yourself
Story 20 Increasing
Self-Awareness
Chapter 6 Changing Patterns of
Behavior
Story 21 Facing Fears: A Kid
Story
Story 22 Facing Fears: A Teen
Story
Story 23 See for Yourself
Story 24 Learning to Think for
Yourself
Story 25 Build on What You Are
Good At
Story 26 Learning New Tricks
Story 27 A Gesture That Changed a
Whole Suburb
Story 28 Making a Difference
Story 29 Changing Patterns of
Behavior
Story 30 I’m Not Afraid Anymore
Chapter 7 Managing Relationships
Story 31 Caught in the Middle: A
Kid Story
Story 32 Caught in the Middle: A
Teen Story
Story 33 Making and Maintaining
Friendships
Story 34 The Four Faithful
Friends
Story 35 Negotiating a Solution
Story 36 New Friends
Story 37 Finding Tenderness
Story 38 Going Inside
Story 39 Putting Yourself in
Someone Else’s Place
Story 40 Making and Keeping
Friends
Chapter 8 Managing Emotions
Story 41 Heightening Pleasure: A
Kid Story
Story 42 Heightening Pleasure: A
Teen Story
Story 43 Having Fun
Story 44 Cultivating Contentment
Story 45 Nailing Down Anger
Story 46 Helping with Humor
Story 47 Flying off the Handle
Story 48 Learning to Laugh
Story 49 Change Your Posture Change Your Feelings
Story 50 Expressing Emotions
Congruently
Chapter 9 Creating Helpful
Thoughts
Story 51 Managing Grief: A Young
Kid Story
Story 52 Managing Grief: A Kid
Story
Story 53 An Act of Kindness
Story 54 Things May Not Be What
They Seem
Story 55 Positive Reframing
Story 56 Thoughts Determine
Feelings
Story 57 Finding Exceptions to
Problems
Story 58 Learning to Use What You
Have
Story 59 Learning to Discriminate
Story 60 Awakening Confidence
Chapter 10 Developing Life Skills
Story 61 Facing a Moral Dilemma:
A Kid Story
Story 62 Facing a Moral Dilemma:
A Teen Story
Story 63 Learning about Rules
Story 64 Sometimes Terrible
Things Happen
Story 65 Accepting What You Have
Story 66 Taking Responsibility
Story 67 Making Decisions
Story 68 Taking a Different View
Story 69 Overcoming Fear
Story 70 The Secrets of Success
Chapter 11 Building Problem-Solving
Skills
Story 71 Overcoming Adversity: A
Kid Story
Story 72 Overcoming Adversity: A
Teen Story
Story 73 Collaborative
Problem-Solving
Story 74 Thinking through a Problem
Story 75 Solving a Problem
Story 76 Acceptance
Story 77 Learning to Share
Story 78 Tending to the Neglected
Story 79 Taking Control
Story 80 Creating a Wish
Chapter 12 Managing Life’s
Challenging Times
Story 81 Blowing Away Pain: A Kid
Story
Story 82 Managing Pain: A Teen
Story
Story 83 Beating a Bully
Story 84 I Am Only Nine
Story 85 Coping with Illness
Story 86 Finding Solutions
Story 87 Facing Challenges
Story 88 Getting Back on Your
Feet
Story 89 Facing Thoughts of
Suicide
Story 90 Learning to Care for
Yourself
Chapter 13 Kids’ Own Healing
Stories
Story 91 The Ghost Who Learned to
Scare
Story 92 Girl
Story 93 Days to Come
Story 94 Mary-Jane’s Story
Story 95 Sally’s Problem
Story 96 My Life
Story 97 My Life Story
Story 98 Rock Your Way out of It
Story 99 When There Is Nothing I
Can Do
Story 100 Lucy Mac’s Story
PART III CREATING YOUR OWN HEALING STORIES FOR KIDS
Chapter 14 How Can I Use
Metaphors Effectively?
Potential Pathways for Effective
Metaphor Therapy
Potential Pitfalls in Effective Metaphor Therapy
Chapter 15 Where Do I Get the
Ideas for Healing Stories?
Metaphors Built on a Basis of
Evidence
Metaphors Built on Heroes
Metaphors Built on Imagination
Metaphors Built on Therapeutic
Strategies
Metaphors Built on an Idea
Metaphors Built on a Child’s Own
Story
Metaphors Built on Humor
Metaphors Built on Cross-Cultural
Tales
Metaphors Built on Client Cases
Metaphors Built on Everyday
Experiences
Guidelines for Using Personal
Life Stories
Chapter 16 How Do I Plan and
Present Healing Stories?
The PRO-Approach
Make an Outcome-Oriented
Assessment
Plan Your Metaphors
Present Your Metaphors
Stop Look and Listen
Ground the Story in Reality
Chapter 17 Teaching Parents to
Use Healing Stories
Stories for Parents and Parenting
Some Values of Teaching Parents
to Use Metaphors
Steps for Teaching Parents
Storytelling
An Example of Effective Parental
Storytelling
Helping Parents Build
Storytelling Skills
. . . And the Story Continues
Story 101 Will You Be My Teacher?
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George Burns is a highly
experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover, and tell
engaging stories that can teach us all the most important lessons in life. With
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens, he strives especially to help kids and
teens learn these life lessons early on, providing them opportunities for
getting help, and even learning to think preventively. Burns has made an invaluable
contribution to helping young people build good skills and good lives.
Michael D.Yapko, Ph.D.
Author of Breaking the Patterns of Depression and Hand-Me-Down Blues
101 Healing Stories for Children
and Teens is a must-read for everyone working with this age group. George Burns
takes the reader on a wonderful journey, balancing metaphor, good therapeutic technique,
and empirical foundations during the trip. Given that Burns utilizes all three
aspects of the Confucian story referred to in the book—teaching, showing, and
involving—any reader using this resource should increase their understanding of
how stories can be used therapeutically.
Richard G.Whiteside, MSW
Author of The Art of Using and Losing Control and Working with Difficult Clients
Burns has done it again, even
more thoroughly and usefully than last time! I loved the structure, the content,
and the stories—particularly the child-generated metaphors and collaborative
tales. This book is going to be invaluable to all clinicians who work with
children of all ages and shines with the clear and genuine love that allowed
its writing. Thanks, George.
Robert McNeilly, MBBS
Director, Centre of Effective
Therapy, Melbourne, Australia
Author of Healing the Whole Person
101 Healing Stories for Kids and
Teens is a fantastic idea, well-executed, by a master! Burns systematically
leads readers through every step of constructing and delivering therapeutic
stories in general, and then outlines and provides examples of stories for
achieving a wide variety of specific goals. This book is a wonderful gift for
psychotherapists but it should also be in the hands of every parent who spends
loving time with their children.
Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB
Executive Director, Phoenix
Institute of Ericksonian Therapy
Author of The Answer Within and Tales of Enchantment.
The information helps youngsters DO
different things but stories create experiences that help them to BE different.
George Burns is an international expert and a voluble and vulpine raconteur.
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens is a masterwork—easy to follow, easy to
effect. A treasure-trove for parents and professionals in the child-development
fields.
Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D.
Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
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