Author: Beverly James
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: children, traumatized, treating
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0669209945
ISBN-13: 9780669209945

Listening to a small child describe a parent’s murder can tax the most seasoned professional. Cases of physical and sexual abuse where trauma was deliberately inflicted can particularly challenge a practitioner’s defenses. Treating Traumatized Children is the first handbook to provide specific guidance and tools for treating children who have been traumatized by physical and sexual abuse, disaster, divorce, or witnessing violent events. This book will provide helping professionals with a clear blueprint for assessing the impact of trauma and developing specific treatment plans.

Author: Cathy A. Malchiodi
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: children, traumatized, interventions, creative
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1593856156
ISBN-13: 9781593856151

Rich with case material and artwork samples, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children’s emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book especially practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences addressed include parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family

Authors:Mike Thomas, Terry Philpot,
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: recovery, children, delivering, traumatized, family, child, fostering, placement
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1843103273
ISBN-13: 9781843103271

The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported foster carers and multiple moves. This practical and evidence-based book outlines the principles of family placement on the basis of planning and evidence, and explores the qualities, skills and insights that create positive placement outcomes. "Fostering a Child’s Recovery" shows how the key to good fostering is well-trained and skilled foster carers who form part of a team of professionals wh

Authors:Patrick Tomlinson, Terry Philpot,
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Keywords: recovery, children, delivering, traumatized, assessment, journey, child, planning
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1843103303
ISBN-13: 9781843103301

This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child’s progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary team. Particular themes addressed include the conflict between the child’s chronological and emotional ages, the need to work at the child’s pace, the importance of the whole-team approach, and the challenges involved in measuring progress. The authors describe clearly defined out

Author: Charles R. Figley
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: stress, traumatized, routledge, psychosocial, series, treat, disorder, coping, secondary, traumatic, compassion, fatigue
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0876307594
ISBN-13: 9780876307595

Reference for therapists identifying and characterizing the problem of stress disorder in caregivers helping victims - the crisis counselors, Red Cross workers, and nurses.

Authors:Allen Rubin, David W. Springer,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: evidence, based, practice, guide, clinician, series, traumatized, adults, children, treatment
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-08-17
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0470228466
ISBN-13: 9780470228463

Allen Rubin & David W. Springer, Editors Treatment of Traumatized Adults and Children Clinician’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Praise for Treatment of Traumatized Adults and Children "A major stumbling block to adoption of evidence-based practice in the real world of clinical practice has been the absence of clinician-friendly guides. Such guides need to be understandable, free of technical research jargon, infused with clinical expertise, and rich with real-life examples. ?Rubin and Springer have hit a home run with this series, which has all of these character