Publications

The third and jubilee volume of our series takes the reader through 25 years of professional development at Smile Foundation, with interesting case studies and colourful descriptions of Smile therapy methods. The book presents how Smile therapists work in difficult environments, such as paediatric oncology or acute psychiatric wards under constantly changing conditions, which require a high ability to improvise and adapt. The volume is divided into three main sections: past, present and future. Past studies provide insights into programmes that have been running successfully for years but have already come to an end or are continuing in other forms. The present section focuses on Smile therapy programmes that are still in operation nowadays, while the future section concentrates on methods that can inspire the work of Smile professionals and other art therapists.

The second volume of our series was published to facilitate the work of art therapists in hospitals. For this purpose, we present some applications for the use of fairy tales and a few possible effects of the patterns and symbols they contain. The hospital sessions of Smile mentioned in the book were based on Ildikó Boldizsár’s Metamorphoses Method of Narrative Therapy. After a brief theoretical summary of this method, the volume presents concrete examples of applied fairy tales and of cases over a one-year period.

The first book in a series of Smile publications on methodology introduces the application of stories and tales in therapy to support children’s mental health. The selection includes stories that can be told to children who have experienced trauma. The book presents two different perspectives in storytelling therapy methods. The first one approaches tales from a psychological point of view, in the form of therapeutic stories (Nancy Davis’s tales), and the second one from the point of view of traditional storytelling and folk tales that goes back thousands of years (tales collected by Laura Simms and her colleagues).