Tell-A-Story

Tell-A-Story is a software application designed to accelerate the methods currently used by child psychologists to gather patient sessions.

The application makes use of the MCAST child attachment interview research, pioneered by Dr. Helen Minnis, a senior lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry at Glasgow University and Mr. Warren Read.

Tell-A-Story aims to evoke, using MCAST within a controlled and repeatable setting, patterns of behaviour and reaction, which can then be used to begin making a psychological evaluation of the patient.

The software assists this process by giving the child a completely interactive environment where they can produce and interact with animated, narrated stories.

The unique capture, storage and playback capabilities of the application provide the child physiologists with the freedom to review the acquired sessions quickly and then efficiently diagnose potential psychological issues.

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Information

the Kelvin Institute to be kept up to date with Tell-A-Story's development.

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Contact

For further information please contact:

Jim McGuire - Business Development Manager, SHIL
Dr Helen Minnis - Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow

http://www.shil.co.uk
http://www.kelvininstitute.com

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Acknowledgements

Produced under licence from Greater Glasgow Health Board

Based on the pioneering work carried out by Inge Bretherton, David Oppenheim and Robert Emde in developing the MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) © 1990 (Ref: Revealing the Inner Worlds of Young Children: the MacArthur Story Stem Battery and Parent-Child Narratives. (2003), Robert Emde, Dennis P. Wolf and David Oppenheim, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195154045)

Manchester Child Attachment Story Task measure of childhood attachment patterns which uses a doll-play vignette completion method created by Dr Jonathan Green at University of Manchester