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Sam Feels Better Now! An Interactive Story for Children, October 1, 2010
This review is from: Sam Feels Better Now! An Interactive Story for Children (Paperback)
Sam goes to see Ms. Carol because he's been frightened. It's caused him to not be eating or sleeping properly. As you go through the book and Same and Ms. Carol talk, your child is able to draw and interact as Sam would be in the therapist's office.
This book points out the importance of security and feeling safe, of having a regular daily routine and how to talk to others about things.
This book even allows you to draw and understand more fully the range of feelings that you can go through. Many of these emotions can be especially difficult for a younger child to understand.
This was a really great book on further exploration of feelings. My six year old really enjoyed it and likes it even more because he got to color and draw.
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Pages: 41
Softcover
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useful tool for children who need help with trauma anxiety, May 13, 2010
This review is from: Sam Feels Better Now! An Interactive Story for Children (Paperback)
How should a parent react when a child is so scared by something that he's having trouble sleeping, isn't eating enough, and is fighting with his friends? Sam saw something awful and scary, so his mother takes him to Mrs. Carol, a special therapist who helps kids feel better. She asks Sam to draw some pictures and then tell her a story about the thing that scared him. Next, she talks with Sam and his mother about working up a daily routine, finding people who can help, thinking of ways to stay safe, and generally helping Sam to understand his feelings, so that he could coping skills to decrease the effects of his anxiety.
Author Jill Osborne, a professional counselor who has specialized in play therapy, traumatology, and child therapy, provides a story that integrates principles for trauma therapy, play therapy, and expressive techniques to assist a child who has experienced a traumatic event, crisis situation, or grief through stage one of trauma therapy by creating a fun, creative, and interactive experience for the child. It is recommended that children and parents who are dealing with such problems work with a therapist trained in child therapy. There is a therapist's guide at the end of the book with suggestions, references, and resources. Sam Feels Better Now will prove to be a helpful tool for working with children who need this kind of help.
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For The Therapist, August 13, 2009
This review is from: Sam Feels Better Now! An Interactive Story for Children (Paperback)
Sam Feels Better Now! An Interactive Story for Children, written by Jill Osborne and illustrated by Kevin Collier, is meant to help children dealing with traumatic memories. Ms. Carol, a special therapist, walks Sam step by step through identifying and dealing with a scary thing that happened to him.
This book began as a project for a traumatology course that the author took while doing graduate work in professional counseling at Georgia State University.
The book can be used by therapists to help children go through the process with Sam, in a non-threatening way since it is in the third person. It is interactive in that there are pages for the child to draw and identify what happened, how it makes him feel, and how to deal with it. It is recommended for ages 4-10.
The colors and illustrations are appealing; Esmé, my two-year-old, sat through several readings of the book while looking at the pictures. The vocabulary is simple to understand, too. There is not much of a story line or character development to evaluate; it is just a step-by-step description of the therapy process.
There were a couple of minor punctuation and grammatical issues in the book copy I received for review.
I don't feel qualified to evaluate the therapy process described in the book, as I don't have much background in that area.
Overall, this looks like a useful tool for a therapist to use in helping children who have dealt with trauma.
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