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

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., Maggie Kline

North Atlantic Books, Dec 26, 2006 - Family & Relationships - 536 pages

What parents, educators, and health professionals can do to recognize, prevent, and heal childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—by the author of Waking the Tiger

Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents like auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce, or even falling off a bicycle. At the core of this book is the understanding of how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit—often resulting in anxiety, nightmares, depression, physical illnesses, addictions, hyperactivity, and aggression.

Rich with case studies and hands-on activities, Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes gives insight into children’s innate ability to rebound with the appropriate support, and provides their caregivers with tools to overcome and prevent trauma.


“Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes . . . creates its own mold in a way that everyone concerned with the health and happiness of children will be grateful for.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author of Hold On to Your Kids

Contents

• 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
• A Quick Reference: 461
• 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

Dr. Peter A. Levine, author of the best-selling Waking the Tiger and of Healing Trauma, has a background in medical biophysics, stress, and psychology. He developed Somatic Experiencing®, and serves as a consultant to the Meadows, a leading residential addiction recovery center. He lives on the banks of the St. Vrain River in the Rocky Mountains.

Maggie Kline, MS, MFT, has more than thirty years of experience as a teacher, family and child therapist, school psychologist, and parent. She is a senior faculty member for Dr. Levine’s Professional Training Program and resides by the sea in southern California with her therapy dog, Beijo.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing; Children, Parenting and the Family Series
• Authors: Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., Maggie Kline
• Edition: annotated
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1556436300, 9781556436307
• Length: 536 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Psychology / Developmental / Child