Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing; Infancy Through Adolescence

Peter A. Levine, Maggie Kline

North Atlantic Books, 2006 - Psychology - 509 pages

Peter Levine's work in trauma is grounded in medical biophysics, psychophysiology, and psychology, as well as his own innovative research into the instinctual behavior of wild animals. Over the past 35 years, he has developed and refined a method called Somatic Experiencing (SE), which provides the foundation for this guide to dealing with trauma in children. At the core of this book is the understanding that trauma begets violence, and violence begets trauma. The effects of trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse and violence but from everyday, common incidents such as minor auto accidents, routine medical procedures, family stresses, even something as seemingly innocent as falling off a bicycle. Trauma Through a Child's Eyes offers a hopeful alternative to children acting “in” (on themselves) or “out” (on others) in response to pain and injury. Most children possess an innate natural resiliency, and Levine explains how adults can help them tap into and strengthen that resiliency to resolve the effects of trauma and cope successfully with future harmful situations.

Contents

• What Is Trauma? A Working Definition: 3
• Traumas ScopeSources Ranging from: 17
• Signs and Symptoms of Trauma in Children: 39
• GENERAL GUIDE FOR PREVENTING CHILDHOOD: 81
• Sensations Images and Feelings Using Animal: 133
• WORKBOOK FOR COMMONLY OCCURRING: 157
• Prevention Tools for Parents and Health: 183
• Divorce Death and Separation: 203
• Preventing and Healing the Sacred Wound: 239
• TOWARDS A HUMANISTIC VIEW OF TRAUMA: 271
• Removing the Barriers to Learning and Self: 323
• Responding to Natural and ManMade: 413
• Transforming Medical Care for: 441
• Summary: 456
• Worksheet For Listing Symptoms: 463
• Bibliography: 483
• Index: 495
• About the Authors: 507

Popular passages

Page 475 - Early pain experience, child and family factors as precursors of somatization: A prospective study of extremely premature and fullterm children.

Page 466 - How Violent Are American Families? Estimates From the National Family Violence Resurvey and Other Studies.

About the author

Peter Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing and the Director of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He holds doctorate degrees in both Medical Biophysics and Psychology. During his thirty year study of stress and trauma, Dr. Levine has contributed to a variety of scientific, medical, and popular publications. His book, Waking the Tiger- Healing Trauma is in its fifth printing and receiving wide international attention. Peter was a consultant for NASA during the development of the Space Shuttle, and has taught at hospitals and pain clinics in both Europe and the U.S., as well as at the Hopi Guidance Center in Arizona. He lives near Lyons, Colorado, on the banks of the St. Vrain River.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing; Infancy Through Adolescence; Children, Parenting and the Family Series
• Authors: Peter A. Levine, Maggie Kline
• Edition: annotated
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1556436300, 9781556436307
• Length: 509 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Developmental / Child