The Healing Heart for Families: Storytelling to Encourage Caring and Healthy Families Book

	Foreword	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Healing Through Story	1
	The Tale-Teller	3
	Once upon a time, there was and there was not...	6
	Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree	10
	Entering in	13
	Guidelines for healing work	15
	Health Promotion and Disease Prevention	19
	The breath of life	20
	The Three Little Pigs of Hog Holler Swamp	22
	There is a balm in Gilead: Storytelling as a Healing Resource for African-American Women	26
	Yonjwa Seeks a Bride	31
	A story of a strong woman	34
	Kimo's Heart	35
	Share stories, pass it on: Women's health promotion through storytelling	40
	Losing and Getting	44
	I Don't Want to Talk About It!	49
	Children with Medical Problems Reclaim Their Lives	55
	Digital storytelling with band-aides and blackboards: When chronic illness--or some other medical problem--goes to school	56
	Sally Goes to School	58
	Kinka: A Story About the Birth of a Very Special Tortoise	66
	Binding the unraveled sleeve: Story and music come to oncology camp	68
	Nobody's Good for Nothin'	70
	Stories in the Hospital and Beyond	75
	I Want to Tell You a Story	76
	The Search for the Magic Lake	79
	Some successful stories and story interactions	82
	The medicine of the heart	85
	Coping with Grief	91
	Storytelling and bereavement	92
	Outwitting Death	95
	Infinite Resource and Sagacity	98
	Writing David's Story	101
	Honoring a Life Through Sharing Stories	103
	Spiritual Healing	107
	Buried Treasure: Sacred tales and healing	108
	Story wrestling: Healing through telling Hasidic stories	116
	Rabbi Gershon's Dream	117
	Teach Your Children Well	125
	Storytelling and resiliency: Why children need stories	126
	The Gift of Good Advice	129
	The Magic Brush	134
	Stories as tools for coping	137
	Early Childhood Interventions--The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program	141
	The heart of Mother Goose: Lullabies, lap-rhymes and stories	142
	The parent-child Mother Goose Program	143
	The stories in the rhymes	147
	Oral literacy: Learning while listening	149
	Miriam's Story	151
	Stories Go to School	153
	The Odyssey Project: Adolescent pregnancy prevention through storytelling	154
	Cucarachita	161
	Listening is the other half of telling: Teaching students with story	164
	Adopting Families	169
	Family trees	170
	The Tree of Creation	174
	The Pincoya's Daughter	178
	Traditional stories that address adoption issues	181
	Exploring Alternative Sexual Identities	183
	Bi-anonymous	184
	The Tackety Boots	186
	Dismantling discrimination, one story at a time	188
	The Best of Both Worlds	190
	Deconstructing Prejudice and Developing Empathy	195
	Kofi's Hat	196
	Compassionate action through storytelling	197
	Kanu Above and Kanu Below	199
	Speaking from the heart: Empathic rapport and the role of the oral tradition in moral development	204
	Bibliography	209
	Author biographies and contact information	229