Therapeutic stories are an indirect way of healing negative emotional conditions and are used for restoring the harmony in situations that are out of the balance. Therapeutic stories serve as a quality tool for a positive psychosocial development of students as participants in the educational process due to numerous benefits of their usage. The survey involving 92 participants sought to determine teachers’ view on appliance of therapeutic stories in teaching and extracurricular activities. Research was conducted in 7 elementary schools in Rijeka, one parent school and 6 district schools on the island of Rab. It has been inferred that teachers generally have a positive opinion on the usage of therapeutic stories in educational work with emphasis on the therapeutic stories used in regular teaching, especially in teaching Croatian language. Teachers point out that main benefits of therapeutic stories in the teaching context are the development of an emotional intelligence, enhanced understanding of students’ own emotions and increase of empathy. Therapeutic story is used in a teaching context by 57, 6 % of participants who consider fostering the communication among children as its main benefit together with achieving more positive and healthy classroom atmosphere based on tolerance and appreciation of diversity. Teachers generally consider themselves motivated for the usage of therapeutic stories within a regular teaching and extracurricular activities but also believe they are lacking knowledge (especially of extracurricular activities), so the great number of teachers emphasizes the importance of additional education. Teachers who are educated on therapeutic story application consider its usage particularly useful in educational work.