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The ‘words and pictures’ storyboard: making sense for children and families the ‘words and pictures’ storyboard margaret hiles, susie essex, amanda fox and colin luger introduction Making sense of past and present events is important in the development of both children and adults.. Co-creating an agreed narrative in ‘Words and Pictures’ sessions gives the therapist an opportunity to open up communication within the wider network, offering parents lost for words and carers support as they share this information among Children faced with adult mental health concerns or a wider circle of significant people.. Parents, primary carers and members of the kinship system can be asked what would be helpful for the child to know, and what language would help them understand about the problem or 11 the ‘words and pictures’ storyboard such as a couple in a case of disputed contact who are nowadays not talking to each other but must presumably at one time have liked each other enough to have children – a message that may be reassuring for the child although not perhaps what the parents currently wish to recall.. 

So, in contact disputes the narrative might start when the children were little, all the family were together and they all had smiley faces for child protection concerns the storyboard may start when Mum and Dad met or at the birth of the child for mental health difficulties it might start some years earlier when the parent was well, maybe a wedding picture, then mother with small children, followed by a picture of mother getting ill but not knowing what was wrong.. The of Mummy in bed and the children looking worried saying storyboard is more helpful when based upon facts rather than “What shall we do ” This can introduce questions, such as: opinion the detail needed for the storyboard is about what “Do you know what makes people so tired and sad, or so worried ” people do or accounts of what took place, not about people’s There can also be some explanations, prompted b