ABSTRACT
This manual is designed to support practitioners with practical and creative ideas on how to use illustrated storybooks — both story and image — when working with children therapeutically. The manual, after a brief historical context of oral storytelling, myth, fairy tales and metaphor, and therapeutic stories, discusses the following: creation of right conditions for working with storybooks therapeutically and creatively; prompts and conversation starters on how to read and explore storybooks with children; and further creative ideas and exercises on how to use story and image as a therapeutic tool. The manual includes worksheets with examples of process-orientated creative activities. It introduces new skills based on blending creative and therapeutic fields.
