Woodslane
Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children 2nd Edition
$82.95 inc GST $75.41 ex GST
A trusted, bestselling resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children’s emotional reparation and recovery from trauma.
Product overview
Experts in play, art, music, movement, and drama therapy, as well as bibliotherapy, describe step-by-step strategies for working with children, families, and groups. Rich with case material and artwork, the book is both practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences include parental loss, child abuse, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Important developments in neurobiology, self-regulation, and resilience and posttraumatic growth are highlighted in this substantial revision.
New to This Edition:
- Chapters on art therapy and EMDR, body maps and dissociation, sand tray play, resiliency-based movement therapy, work with clay, mindfulness, and stress reduction with music therapy.
- Updated and expanded discussions of trauma-informed therapy and the neurobiological basis for creative interventions.
- The chapter on mass violence has been extensively rewritten with new case material on the Sandy Hook school shooting.
