ABSTRACT
This chapter provides guidelines and case examples to illustrate how this storytelling approach may be used by social workers, adoptive, foster and kinship parents, teachers and assistants, as well as by trained therapists. The aim of therapy was to enable Sophie to make sense of why the was in foster care. The therapist also reminded Sophie of all the friends she had made and the good report she'd been given the previous week. The therapist then moved on to stories the Domino characters. The therapist sought a story to illustrate difficulties in resisting temptation. Sophie told the therapist that she was often told off at school and anticipated this would carry on and stymie her ambition to work with a vet. The therapist drew an image of Sophie on a mountain between childhood and adulthood, and reassured her the would change. The therapist's calm manner soothed Sophie and enabled her to feel calmer in herself.
