Treating Traumatized Children: New Insights and Creative InterventionsListening 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.Beverly James, a specialist in evaluating and treating traumatized children, outlines creative exercises and techniques that will enable clinicians to join with children in slowly and carefully reviewing their experiences and helping them understand and accept their feelings related to the trauma. Art, play, and drama techniques, among others, are presented in a sophisticated yet straightforward style, useful to clinicians with specialized training in such techniques or those using them for the first time. |
Contents
What Is Trauma? | 1 |
Guidelines for Evaluation and Treatment Planning | 39 |
Basic Treatment Process | 49 |
Explaining Therapy to the Child | 61 |
SelfBlame | 67 |
Powerlessness | 73 |
Body Integrity | 87 |
The Dissociatively Disordered Child | 101 |
Integration of Traumatizing Events | 157 |
OpenDoor Termination | 177 |
Techniques and Exercises | 191 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Resources | 235 |
How to Recognize Why a Childs Behavior Activity | 247 |
ParentChild Supervision Guideline | 255 |
261 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adults assessment attachment Attachment disorder become behavior believe body caregivers chapter child and therapist child sexual abuse clinical clinician cope deal develop direct discussion dissociative disorders dynamics emotional emotionally eroticized evaluation example exercise experienced explore express FALSE TRUE FALSE fear feelings friends Garbage genogram going happened help the child hurt identify impact important interactions issues Kid Cool kids loss mastery messages multiple personality disorder negative nurturance paraphilia parents Peter Alsop physical play play therapy playroom post-traumatic stress disorder problems professional Psychiatric psychodrama psychological psychotherapy reinforce relationship remember response reunification role safe self-blame sessions sexual abuse shame social socially inhibited someone sometimes specific stress talk techniques tell Theraplay therapy things tion told traumatic event traumatized children treatment objectives treatment plan TRUE FALSE TRUE understand victims worry York young youngster