ABSTRACT

Real Life Heroes Life Storybook, 3rd Edition is a workbook that helps children and adolescents develop self-esteem and overcome difficult experiences and traumas in their lives. The format helps children to create their own autobiographies with a wide range of activities, including drawings, photographs, music, dance, videotape, posters, crafts, and narrative. The workbook is designed for use by psychotherapists trained in trauma treatment. Parents, grandparents, teachers, foster parents, adoptive parents, and mentors can utilize the workbook with psychotherapists to help children develop increased resilience and reduce negative behaviors associated with a child’s experiences of trau - matic events, including losses, neglect, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, domestic violence, community violence, wars, or natural disasters.