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Healing Heart Families by Allison Cox


The Healing Heart ~ Families

Storytelling To Encourage Caring and Healthy Families

Table of Contents

Foreword by Nancy Mellon

Healing Through Story

Once upon a time, there was and there was not ~ Allison M. Cox
The Tale-Teller ~ Leslie Slape
Entering In ~ Jan Andrews
Gold Tree and Silver Tree ~ Jan Andrews
Guidelines for healing work ~ Cristy West


Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

The Breath of Life ~ Allison Cox
The Three Little Pigs of Hog Holler Swamp ~ Allison Cox
There is a Balm in Gilead: Storytelling as a Resource for African-American Women ~ JoAnne Banks Wallace
A Story of a Strong Woman ~ Debra Harris-Branham
Yonjwa Seeks a Bride ~ Margaret Read MacDonald
Kimo's Heart ~ Randy Landenberger
Share Stories, Pass It On: Women's Health Promotion Through Storytelling ~ Allison Cox
Losing and Getting ~ Nancy Duncan
I Don't Want to Talk About It! ~ Tom Farley


Children with Medical Problems Reclaim Their Lives

Digital Storytelling with Band-Aides and Blackboards: When Chronic Illness...Or Some Other Medical Problem...Goes to School ~ Joan Fleitas
Sally Goes to School ~ Joan Fleitas
Kinka: A Story About the Birth of a Very Special Tortoise ~ Deborah Robins
Binding the Unraveled Sleeve: Story and Music Come to Oncology Camp ~ Tom McDermot
Nobody's Good for Nothin' ~ Tom McDermot


Stories in the Hospital and Beyond

I want to tell you a story ~ Michale Gabriel
The Search for the Magic Lake ~ Cristy West
The Medicine of Listening ~ Laura Simms


Coping with Grief

Storytelling and Bereavement ~ Gail Rosen
Outwitting Death ~ Gail Rosen
Infinite Resource and Sagacity ~ Diane Rooks
Writing David's Story ~ Diane Rooks
Honoring a Life Through Sharing Stories ~ Allison Cox


Spiritual Healing

Buried Treasure - Sacred Tales and Healing ~ Elisa Pearmain
Story Wrestling: Healing Through Telling Hasidic Stories ~ Doug Lipman
Rabbi Gershon's Dream ~ Doug Lipman


Teach Your Children Well

Storytelling and Resiliency: Why Children Need Stories ~ Linda Fredericks
The Gift of Good Advice ~ Linda Fredericks
The Magic Brush ~ Rose Owens
Stories as Tools for Coping ~ Rose Owen


Early Childhood Interventions
Through the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program

The Heart of Mother Goose: Lullabies, Lap-Rhymes and Stories ~ Allison Cox
The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program ~ Celia Lottridge
The Stories in the Rhymes ~ Sandra Carpenter Davis
Oral Literacy: Learning While Listening ~ Merle Harris
Miriam's Story


Stories Go to School

The Odyssey Project: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Through Storytelling ~ Allison Cox
Cucarachita ~ Maureen Pedone
Listening is the Other Half of Telling: Teaching Students with Story ~ Kevin Cordi


Adopting Families

Family Trees ~ Renee Diaz de Leon Harvey
The Tree of Creation ~ Renee Diaz de Leon Harvey
The Pincoya's Daughter ~ Celia Lottridge
Traditional Stories that Address Adoption Issues ~ Nancy Schimmel


Exploring Alternative Sexual Identities

Bi-Anonymous ~ Melanie Ray
The Tackety Boots ~ Hazel Lennox
Dismantling Discrimination, One Story at a Time ~ Rico Rodriguez
The Best of Both Worlds ~ Rico Rodriguez


Deconstructing Prejudice and Developing Empathy

Kofi's Hat ~ Susan O'Halloran
Comapssionate Action Through Storytelling ~ Susan O'Halloran
Kanu Above And Kanu Below ~ Margaret Read MacDonald
Speaking from the Heart: Empathic Rapport and the Role of the Oral Tradition in Moral Development ~ Paul Nelson


Bibliography

Author biographies and contact information


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