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A therapeutic treasure box for working with children and adolescents with developmental trauma : creative techniques and activities / Karen Treisman.

By: Language: English Publisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017Description: 420 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781785922633 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WM 172.5
Contents:
Introduction to using the book, guiding principles, and underpinning rationale -- Tools for supporting the assessment, engagement, and building rapport with young people -- Working towards establishing multi-levelled safety (inner safety, emotional safety, physical safety, felt safety) -- Strategies for supporting children who have experienced relational and developmental trauma to identify, label, express, and regulate their feelings -- Strength, resilience, and hope-based practices : finding ways to identify, notice, celebrate and build on children's strengths, skills, resilience and positive qualities -- Strengthening and supporting "parent-child" relationships, relational trust, and interpersonal connections -- Team around the family- caring for the caring- holding carers in safe hands, thinking minds, and regulating bodies -- Strategies for understanding, reducing and managing outbursts, tantrums, rage, and expressions of dysregulation -- Supporting children who are experiencing nightmares and sleep difficulties -- Preparing, planning, reflecting on, and expressing endings, changes, goodbyes, and transitions.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to using the book, guiding principles, and underpinning rationale -- Tools for supporting the assessment, engagement, and building rapport with young people -- Working towards establishing multi-levelled safety (inner safety, emotional safety, physical safety, felt safety) -- Strategies for supporting children who have experienced relational and developmental trauma to identify, label, express, and regulate their feelings -- Strength, resilience, and hope-based practices : finding ways to identify, notice, celebrate and build on children's strengths, skills, resilience and positive qualities -- Strengthening and supporting "parent-child" relationships, relational trust, and interpersonal connections -- Team around the family- caring for the caring- holding carers in safe hands, thinking minds, and regulating bodies -- Strategies for understanding, reducing and managing outbursts, tantrums, rage, and expressions of dysregulation -- Supporting children who are experiencing nightmares and sleep difficulties -- Preparing, planning, reflecting on, and expressing endings, changes, goodbyes, and transitions.