The Child's Own Story argues that many traditional approaches to lifestory work focus too much on the facts as recorded by others in thechild's life and too little on the process of arriving at the story thatis actually written. In arriving at this story, the child is encouragedto question and review their understanding of events, as well as thestories told by others.
The journey is not a quest for definitive facts but an opportunity tohelp the child face up to and discover a family history, which forms anessential part of their own development and identity. This history maycontain happy episodes as well as troubling ones, but the approachdescribed emphasises the importance of not sidestepping difficultissues, recognising that surviving traumatic and abusive events is afundamental aspect of the child's own story.
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