Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers

A Guide to Providing Understanding and Help

Atle Dyregrov

Paperback: £19.99 / $32.95

2010, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-034-0, BIC 2: JKSN2 JNH JKSB1

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Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers is an accessible, comprehensive book providing an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and how they can be supported following trauma.

Trauma can result from a range of experiences from bullying to witnessing violence to living through war. This book explores the different reactions children may experience, and the impact trauma can have. Variables affecting the impact of trauma are explored such as different developmental stages, gender, the reactions of friends and parents, the child's personality, and their caring environment. Appropriate and effective ways of helping children after a traumatic event are outlined, and different types of therapy, such as group therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, are discussed. The book offers case examples and practical tips throughout, and includes a chapter on how someone working with a traumatized child can help and look after themselves.

This book will be invaluable to a range of professionals working with traumatized children including counsellors, child and family social workers and therapists, as well as others involved with traumatized children such as foster carers and teachers.

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Atle Dyregrov on Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers

18 August 2010

"There are a variety of self-help techniques that the individual can use for their own sake...In addition to individual methods, there must be systems in place to secure good follow-up for personnel involved in critical incidents or in work with traumatized children over time."

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• Atle Dyregrov

Subject areas

• Education
• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords

• adolescence,
• adoption,
• attachment,
• bereavement,
• bullying,
• challenging behaviour,
• child development,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• children,
• cognitive behavioural therapy,
• counselling,
• creative therapies,
• creative writing as therapy,
• death,
• depression,
• domestic abuse,
• education,
• educational psychology,
• emotions,
• expressive therapies,
• families,
• fostering,
• grief,
• looked after children,
• mainstream education,
• pastoral care,
• play therapy,
• probation,
• relationships,
• resilience,
• risk assessment,
• safeguarding children,
• school phobia,
• self esteem,
• self harm,
• social care,
• social work,
• teenagers,
• trauma,
• youthwork

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