Story Telling

Storytelling is a technique that helps children to understand their own thoughts and feelings, and to communicate meaningful insights, values, and standards for their behavior. The counselor plays an important role in setting up the story. The child is asked to tell a story (the story can be recorded for details) with a beginning, middle and end. After the child tells the story, the counselor then prepares a similar story using related details, settings, themes, and figures from the child's story. The counselor's story should provide the child with better alternatives and/or responses to the situations of the original story.