Narrative work
| Audience | School staff, Social workers, Foster carers, Adopters |
|---|---|
| Course Level | 4 |
| Hours | 20 |
Learning criteria
- Explain how narrative forms part of child development
- Analyse the importance of narrative formation across key dimensions of childhood development
- Explain how childhood trauma can affect narrative formation
- Identify key elements of formal and informal life story work in helping children build narrative
- Explain how you can enable children and young people with impaired narrative formation to begin to make sense of their lives
- Demonstrate how you can work with children and young people with distorted narratives to develop a strong and positive sense of identity
- Analyse how different people in the network can have a constructive or destructive impact on the child\u2019s developing narrative
- Demonstrate how you can influence others in the network to promote the development of a positive sense of self for the child
Learning outcomes
- Understand how childhood trauma affects the creation of life narrative
- Be able to develop skills in narrative work
- Understand how systems & processes can promote positive narrative or reinforce distortions