TY - JOUR AU - Caso, Rossella PY - 2012/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Living and telling stories of illness and hospitalization through fairy tales. JF - Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education JA - RPD VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - History, stories and narrative in education DO - 10.6092/issn.1970-2221/2684 UR - https://rpd.unibo.it/article/view/2684 SP - AB - What link exists beetween health and storytelling? The hypothesis that reading aloud could be an effective instrument in order to support the well-being of the hospitalized child, and that writing to stimulate the expression of their own inner world is the theoretical reference of the bibliotherapy, methology based on the notion that reading could be an effective instrument to promote the development and the well-being of the child and to favour him/her to get the maximum gain during the hospitalization experience. As for the writing, when they tell, children “tell about themselves” and they speak their wishes, feelings, emotions, fears, in a way that is figurative. Read their writings can become, in this sense, as well as a way to take-care-in, an useful key to the world of childhood and, ultimately, a way to improve the quality of care given to them.  ER -