Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Older People

Paula Crimmens (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

1997
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-85302-440-5 (ISBN)

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Paula Crimmens shows that working with older people can be made exciting and stimulating by using storymaking as a basis. Echoing the oral tradition of mankind, the book shows how to use a variety of traditional stories - including myths, folk tales and fairy stories - to work creatively with older people, particularly in groups. The book focuses around themes of empowerment and consolation, and includes groups of stories which can be used as a basis for discussion.

Adopting a holistic and person-centred approach, which incorporates emotional and social needs, the author shows how the use of creative storymaking can:

provide an experience of community for people who may be very isolated

raise self-esteem

provide contact and communication

sustain the attention of members of the group longer than would be possible in one-to-one work

provide entertainment and reduce boredom.

The author provides many practical ideas for group activities based on the stories.

Introduction. 1 Why Groups? Aims in organising a group. Contact and connection. The group as opportunity for sharing and community. Enjoyment. Self esteem. Reducing boredom and increasing interest. Maintaining and extending people's physical and mental abilities. Activities as an opportunity to use the person-centred approach. 2 The Story Session. Assistance in running the group. The make-up of a group. The format of a session. 3 Stories that Contain a Central Elderly Figure. Yaaba. Babka and the Golden Bird. Granny Evergreen. The old Woman and the Tree Children. The Three Blue Hats. The Pedlar of Swaffham. The Three Dancing Princesses. 4 The Theme of Loss in the Lives of Elderly People. Demeter and Persephone. Coyote and Eagle. The Crescent Moon Bear. 5 Loss of Home and Possessions. The Water of Life. Maple Leaf Devil. The Bird of Happiness. The Widow and the Honey Pots. The Shining Fish. How the Villagers found Wisdom. 6 The Theme of Marriage and the Joy of Union. Savitri and Satyavan. Gawain and Lady Ragnell. The Blue Flower of Beechy Hill. The Black Bull of Norway. Tam Lin. The Frog Princess. The Boa and the Mango Tree. Epilogue.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.1997
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-85302-440-6 / 1853024406
ISBN-13	978-1-85302-440-5 / 9781853024405
Zustand	Neuware