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  • Make Room for Baby. Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment

    Make Room for Baby. Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment

    by Alicia Lieberman

    This state-of-the-art clinician's guide describes Perinatal Child–Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by traumatic stress and adverse life experiences. P-CPP, an application to pregnancy of the widely disseminated, evidence-based Child–Parent Psychotherapy, spans the prenatal period through the first 6 months of life. Extended cases illustrate ways to help mothers and fathers understand how trauma has affected them, navigate the physical and emotional challenges of becoming parents, build essential caregiving competencies, and ensure the safety of their babies and...

  • Parents as Partners in Child Therapy. A Clinician's Guide

    Parents as Partners in Child Therapy. A Clinician's Guide

    by Paris Goodyear-Brown

    This book addresses a key need for child therapists - how to actively involve parents in treatment and give them tools to support their child's healthy development. Known for her innovative, creative therapeutic approach, Paris Goodyear-Brown weaves together knowledge about play therapy, trauma, attachment theory, and neurobiology. She presents step-by-step strategies to help parents understand their child's needs, reflect on their own emotional triggers, set healthy boundaries, make time together more fun, and respond effectively to challenging behaviour. Filled with rich clinical illustrations, the volume features 45 reproducible handouts and worksheets. Purchasers...

  • Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias

    Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias

    by Athena Drewes

    Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques. Coverage encompasses everyday fears and worries in 3- 12 year olds as well as anxiety disorders and posttraumatic problems. Leading practitioners describe their approaches step by step and share vivid illustrative case material. Each chapter also summarizes the research base for the interventions discussed. Key topics include adapting therapy to each child's developmental level, engaging reluctant or less communicative clients, and involving parents...

  • Promoting Family Change - The optimism factor

    Promoting Family Change - The optimism factor

    by Browyn Elliot with Louise Mulr

    Life can be a struggle for some families, and support from skilled family workers can make a real difference. Promoting Family Change is a guide to working with vulnerable and marginalised families outside formal therapy settings. Promoting Family Change introduces several approaches to family work which have proven to be very successful: Solution-focused Narrative Cognitive Community-building These approaches assume that the starting point for change is the strengths and capacities of family members. The book is illustrated with detailed case studies drawn from actual practice, and...

  • Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children: What it Is, What Helps and How to Prevent Further Stress or Trauma

    Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children: What it Is, What Helps and How to Prevent Further Stress or Trauma

    by Betsy de Thierry

    The perfect starting point for any adult or carer working with children who have experienced shame, this guide provides straightforward answers and explanations to both common and complex questions. At a time when children are more likely than ever to experience shame, the accessible advice in this book helps adults to boost children's self-esteem. Betsy de Thierry navigates the need to understand its impact and the reasons behind it, as well as how to reduce its hold on self-confidence. Reassuring advice will also help revitalize adults' abilities to face...

  • Social Work Practice with Children. 4th Edition

    Social Work Practice with Children. 4th Edition

    by Nancy Boyd-Webb

    A leading course text and practitioner resource for over 20 years--now revised and updated--this book presents developmentally and culturally informed methods for helping children in family, school, and community settings. Nancy Boyd Webb offers vital guidance and tools for practitioners. The text demonstrates research-based strategies for working with victims of maltreatment and trauma as well as children affected by poverty, parental substance abuse, bullying, and other adversities. Vivid case examples illustrate the "whys" and "how-tos" of play and family therapy, group work, and school-based interventions. Student-friendly features include thought-provoking discussion questions...

  • Supporting Vulnerable Babies and Young Children: Interventions for Working with Trauma, Mental Health, Illness and Other Complex Challenges

    Supporting Vulnerable Babies and Young Children: Interventions for Working with Trauma, Mental Health, Illness and Other Complex Challenges

    by Wendy Bunston and Sarah Jones

    The diverse challenges that clinicians and children's workers tasked with safeguarding babies and young children face are complex, and this unique book looks at effective, practice-based and evidence-informed approaches to working across a wide range of issues. It outlines relevant theory and good practice, gathering case examples from around the world to illustrate what interventions look like in direct practice. Leading contributors address a wide range of challenges, including babies and very young children who have a serious illness, have complex diagnoses, or have been exposed to violence or adversity in...

  • The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective

    The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective

    by Carole Gammer

    Presenting a wide range of practical interventions, including art, video, and play therapy, Carole Gammer provides a comprehensive set of tools to use with children who are part of a family in therapy. Unlike many books on family therapy, this one places children's voices and experiences at the forefront. *Contents:* Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 – Thinking about the Family *Part 1 – Techniques* Chapter 2 – Dramatization techniques Chapter 3 – Metaphor techniques Chapter 4 – Systemic art techniques Chapter 5 – Externalization Chapter 6 – Setting limits Chapter...

  • The Child`s Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children

    The Child`s Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children

    by Richard Rose and Terry Philpot

    Helping traumatised children develop a narrative about their life and the lives of people closest to them, is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help children and young people recover from abuse and make sense of a disrupted upbringing in multiple homes or families. Explaining the concepts of attachment, separation, loss and identity, the authors use these as a context to...

  • The Complete Guide to Children's Drawings: Accessing Children's Emotional World Through Their Artwork

    The Complete Guide to Children's Drawings: Accessing Children's Emotional World Through Their Artwork

    by Michal Wimmer

    This indispensable guide for both parents and professionals offers fascinating ways to better understand the emotional world of children and what is important to them as represented by their drawings. It presents cases of children and adolescents coping with a variety of life challenges and clinical issues by way of interpreting their artwork. Parents, educators, clinicians, and doctors will find this practical guide highly beneficial for understanding children's strengths, weaknesses, and the reasons for their behaviour in cases of ADHD, fears and anxiety, coping with divorce, stubbornness and power struggles,...

  • The Development of Play

    The Development of Play

    by David Cohen

    Why is play so important in child development? Are children in today’s society suffering from a lack of time for free play, with the emerging dominance of screen play? Can play therapy help to uncover, rescue and rehabilitate children living in abusive environments, or even in war-torn countries? Is play also important for adult development? Play is a learning experience and a crucial component to childhood development as it allows children to emulate the behaviours of those around them and to develop their social skills. In this engaging book,...

  • The Whole-Brain Child

    The Whole-Brain Child

    by Daniel Seigel and Tina Payne B

    *12 revolutionary strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind* Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your pre-schooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents' lives endlessly challenging? No- it's just their developing brain calling the shots! In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child's...

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