Do You Ever Feel That Way? A Story and Activities About Families and Feelings

Abstract

This article provides an intervention to be used with young children in the foster care or adoption system. “Do You Ever Feel That Way? A Story and Activities About Families and Feelings” is a bibliotherapy-based intervention to be used with young children who have experienced removal from their homes due to abuse or neglect. The narrative tells the story of a little girl and her range of feelings in different settings as she moves through the child-protection system. The questions and activities following the narrative provide clinicians and family members the opportunity to facilitate discussion with children and to help them develop a sense of family and safety.

Keywords:

• child
• trauma
• foster care
• abuse
• adoption
• bibliotherapy
• creativity