Welcome to NoWhiteLies
Dramatherapy and The Bereaved Child
This book addresses the needs of children experiencing the hospitalization or death of a caregiver or loved one to comprehend and cope with tragedy with the assistance creative non-fictions and dramatic play.
Based on the author’s two-decade-long clinical practice and an extensive career working with bereaved children and their families as a dramatherapist and child life practitioner, this book demonstrates how storytelling and dramatherapy can be used to tell the truth to children in these difficult circumstances.
Children need truth in order to heal from tragedy, and can handle the most difficult truth when it’s shared in language they can understand. NoWhiteLies is a therapeutic approach that uses the power of truthtelling to help children understand catastrophe and heal from loss and pain. NoWhiteLies combines storytelling through personalized books and creative play activities for children, with counseling for parents. The approach has proven wonderfully effective for children up to 12 years old.