mutual storytelling technique

a play therapy technique for communicating metaphorically with children. The therapist instructs a child to tell a fictional story that has a moral or lesson and then assesses the feelings and conflicts communicated in the story. The therapist then makes up a similar story but attempts to introduce a more adaptive resolution to the conflict in the story. [developed by U.S. psychiatrist Richard A. Gardner (1931–2003)]

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