My books - works about the ART OF GIVING
Applied Theatre in Paediatrics. Children, Stories and Synergies of Emotions
ROUTLEDGE Australia, TAYLOR & FRANCIS (2023)
Hb: 978-0-367-48325-8
Pb: 978-0-367-48326-5
eBook: 978-1-003-03934-1
This book explores applied theatre practice for children in environments of illness and cure and how it can powerfully normalise children’s hospitalisation experience. It is an essential tool for making meaning of children’s illnesses, putting them into a fictional context, and developing better control of their clinical experiences. It can be central to raising the standards of care and quality of life during illness. Taken from the author’s research and participatory bedside theatre practice in hospitals before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this book demonstrates new learning about aesthetics, ethics, emotions, stories, puppetry, digital arts and research methodologies about children’s health and wellbeing.
Book Launch 19th JANUARY 2023 hosted by CREATE University of Sydney, Australia Webinar link: https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-30-or-persephone-sextou-children-stories-and-synergies-of-emotions
Theatre for Children in Hospital. The Gift of Compassion
INTELLECT PUBLICATIONS, ENGLAND (2016)
ISBN 978-178-320-6
Available as a hard copy and as an e-book. You can purchase this book by visiting the link: https://www.intellectbooks.com/theatre-for-children-in-hospital
Theatre for children in hospital (TCH) is the first book devoted to theatre practice for children in clinical settings as a means for positive change through compassion, a growing field in healthcare practice. TCH is a potentially important strategy for normalising the experience of spending time in hospital for treatment, preparing children for painful procedures, pre- or post-operative and enhancing emotional and social wellbeing while in hospital.
This book breaks new ground in literature and provides a basis for understanding TCH's critical theoretical and practical features through evidence-based practice. Focusing on a 4-year research study conducted with children in UK hospitals and drawing on experience from leading theatrical interventions in hospitals in Europe, the text is divided into (10) distinctive features that characterise this approach. Theatre for children in hospital provides a concise summary for professionals and trainees in theatre, applied theatre and healthcare, primarily actors, facilitators and community artists, and secondarily play specialists, nurses, teachers in educational centres in hospitals, and therapists who work with children in clinical environments.
Practical Theatre Applications in Primary and Secondary Education
KASTANIOTI Publications, Greece (2007)
ISBN13 978-960-034-519-3
Available as a hard copy. You can purchase the book by visiting this link: https://www.kastaniotis.com/978-960-03-4519-3-c.html
Theatre-in-Education Programmes in Schools
METAIXIMIO Publications, Greece (2005)
ISBN: 978-960-375-845-7
Available as hard copy. You can purchase the book by visiting this link: https://www.protoporia.gr/se3toy-persefonh-8eatro-paidagwgika-programmata-sta-sxoleia-9789603758457.html
DRAMATISATION. THE THEATRE-PEDAGOGUE'S BOOK
KASTANIOTI Publications, Greece (1998)
ISBN 139-789-600-344-318
Available as hard copy. You can purchase this book by visiting the link: https://www.kastaniotis.com/catalog/product/view/id/11155/s/978-960-03-4431-8-c/
Lollie the Rough Collie and the Magic Kiss
A STORY TO TELL CHILDREN WHEN THEY ARE UNDERGOING TREATMENT OR WHEN THEY ARE POORLY
SELF-PUBLICATION (2018)
The story is available to read for free here: https://www.letterpressproject.co.uk/inspiring-young-readers/2016-10-04/lollie-the-rough-collie-and-the-magic-kiss
