Children and Adolescents in Trauma

Creative Therapeutic Approaches

Edited by Chris Nicholson, Michael Irwin and Kedar N Dwivedi
Foreword by Peter Wilson

Part of the Community, Culture and Change series

Paperback: £22.99 / $34.95 add to cart

2010, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-437-7, BIC 2: JKSN MQTC JMC

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Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.

The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development. They discuss the impact of abuse and mistreatment upon the mental health of 'looked after' children, drawing links between psychoanalytic theory and practice and the study of literature and the arts.

This indispensable book provides useful insights and a fresh perspective for anyone working with traumatised children and adolescents, including social workers, psychotherapists, arts therapists, psychiatrists, counsellors, psychologists and students in these fields.

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Author information

• Chris Nicholson
• Michael Irwin
• Kedar N Dwivedi

Subject areas

• Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords

• adolescence,
• art therapy,
• arts therapies,
• attachment,
• challenging behaviour,
• child development,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• children,
• counselling,
• creative therapies,
• families,
• interdisciplinary arts therapies,
• mental health,
• pastoral care,
• psychiatry,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychology,
• psychotherapy,
• residential care,
• social care,
• storymaking,
• teenagers,
• therapeutic communities,
• trauma,
• violence