Publications

Books/Chapters

Killick, S. (in press – publication December 2021). Feelings are Funny Things: Using Storytelling with Children Looked After and their Carers. In Storytelling, special needs and disabilities: Practical approaches for children and adults. Ed: Grove, N.  Routledge.

Killick, S (in press – publication January 2022) Fostering Storytellers:   Helping Foster Carers to build attachments and enhance emotional literacy through stories and oral storytelling.  In The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling.    Eds: Jennings, S., Holmwood, C. & Jacksties, S.   Routledge

Killick, S (2014) Foreword in Golding, K. Using stories to build bridges with traumatized children. Jessica Kingsley Publishing

Killick, S. (2014) ‘A Way of Life’ and ‘The Harvey Jones Unit’ in Behind Many Doors-Writing from Whitchurch Hospital. Eds. Carradice, P. & Goffin,B. Accent Press.

Killick, S. & Thomas, T. (2007) Telling Tales:Storytelling as Emotional Literacy. EPSL.

Killick, S. (2006). Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School Ethos. Sage/Lucky Duck

Killick. S. & Lindeman, S. (1999). Giving Sorrow Words: Managing Bereavement in Schools. Sage/Lucky Duck (A video and book training package)

Killick, S. & Wilson, J. (1999). Weaving words and emergent stories. In: Therapeutic Stories. Eds: Bowen, B. & Robinson, G. Association of Family Therapy Publishing.

Commissioned Publications

Steve Killick & Phil Okwedy (2020).  Feelings are Funny Things:A Tool Kit for Exploring Thoughts, Feelings and Actions. CSCJES.

Killick S. & Boffey, M. (2013) Dylan’s Story – What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a foster carer? The Fostering Network

Killick S. & Boffey, M. (2012) Building Relationships Through Storytelling:A Foster Carer’s Guide to Attachment and Stories. The Fostering Network

Papers & Articles

Steve Killick (2021) Metaphor and Meaning.  Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal  21, 2, 16-18.

Steve Killick Storytelling Makes You Fly: Storytelling with the Italian Red Cross, Facts & Fiction, August 2019.

Killick, S., Feeney,J. & Rhinehart, M (2017) ‘Coping with Christmas’- A group intervention for bereaved children Bereavement Care 36:3, 112-118

Killick, S., Curry, V. & Myles, P. (2016) The Mighty Metaphor: A Collection of Therapist’s Favourite Metaphors and Analogies The Cognitive-Behavioural Therapist. Vol 9, e37.

Killick, S (2015) Telling Tales in CBT. CBT Today 43, 1, 10-11.

Killick, S & Bowkett, S (2015) The Language of Feelings- A Reading and Storytelling Group in an Adolescent Unit. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 20,4, 585-590

Killick, S. (2014) Just what is CBT with Children and Families? CBT Today 42, 2, 18-19.

Killick, S. (2014). A Play on Words – Helping foster carers build attachments and create meaning through storytelling – Child and Family Clinical Psychology Review, 2,45-52

Rivett, M., & Killick, S. (2014). Giving away your wife and children: translating a Jataka Tale into a contemporary narrative. Asian Literature and Translation. Vol. 2, No. 6 1–12

Killick, S (2012) Storytelling with Foster Carers:building bonds through stories.    Storylines, 59.

Frude, N & Killick, S. (2011) Family storytelling and the attachment relationship. Psychodynamic Practice. 17, 4, 441-455.

Killick, S & Frude, N. (2009). The Teller, The Tale and The Told – A psychology of storytelling. The Psychologist, 22,10,850-853.

Killick, S. (2007). Storytelling for Learning. Raising Achievement Update 41, 10-11.

Killick, S. (2006). The Art of Listening. Raising Achievement Update. 33, 9-11.

Killick, S. (2006). Telling tales to develop emotional literacy. Emotional Literacy Update, 24, 9-10.

Killick, S. & Allen, D. (2005). Training staff in an adolescent inpatient unit in positive approaches to managing aggressive behaviour: Does it improve confidence and knowledge? Child Care in Practice, 11, 3, pp 323-339.

Killick, S. (2004). Clinical dilemmas: Interventions with children experiencing attachment difficulties. Service & Practice Update, BPS Faculty of Children & Young People, 3, 23-25.

Parry, R. & Killick, S. (1998). An evaluation of the impact of an individually administered videotape for people with panic disorder. Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy. 26, 153-161.

Killick, S. & Allen, C. (1997). Shifting the Balance – Motivational interviewing to help behaviour change in people with bulimia nervosa. European Eating Disorders Review, 5, 33-41.

Book Reviews in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, CBT Today, Journal of Family Therapy, Clinical Psychology Forum, The Psychologist, Journal of Mental Health and others.