The fairy tale workshop. a new tool for clinical intervention with children and their parents

Journal title PSICOBIETTIVO
Author/s Emanuela Capurso
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/1 Language Italian
Pages 10 P. 93-102 File size 133 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSOB2013-001007
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The paper describes a clinical tool: the "Fairy Tale Workshop", established by the Neuropsychiatrist Pierre Lafforgue, realised in the Infantile Neuropsychiatric Ambulatory in Italy (Torino). In the paper we emphasise the following aspects are emphasized: the therapeutic potentialities of Fairy Tales, the structure of the Fairy Tale Workshop, the children’s’ characteristics going through this experience, how the group of children is established and how the parents get involved. As this clinical tool is described, it is also demonstrated how it is used in practice and emphasizes the links between the children’s’ problems and the potentialities offered by this approach. Finally the focus is on how both children and parents can better access such a therapy and how to integrate this tool within a broader therapeutic perspective.

Keywords: Fairy Tale; Mental Organisation; Narration, Representation; Design; Group.

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Emanuela Capurso, L’atelier fiaba. Un nuovo strumento di lavoro clinico con i bambini e i loro genitori in "PSICOBIETTIVO" 1/2013, pp 93-102, DOI: 10.3280/PSOB2013-001007