Reviving the “LifeBook”: Using Social Constructionism to Celebrate and Understand Difference in HBSE.

While events across the lifespan are important for a practitioner to understand, even more salient is the meaning assigned to them by the client, meaning constructed as a result of individual and cultural differences. We’ll explore how an old intervention from child welfare known as “The LifeBook” with connections to art therapy techniques, narrative therapy, therapeutic journaling and contemporary scrapbooking can provide students with a mechanism to understand diversity in Human Behavior and the Social Environment.



While events across the lifespan are important for a practitioner to understand, even more salient is the meaning assigned to them by the client, meaning constructed as a result of individual and cultural differences. We’ll explore how an old intervention from child welfare known as “The LifeBook” with connections to art therapy techniques, narrative therapy, therapeutic journaling and contemporary scrapbooking can provide students with a mechanism to understand diversity in Human Behavior and the Social Environment.