1. Introduction to Using the Book, Guiding Principles, and Underpinning Rationale. 2. Tools for Supporting the Assessment, Engagement, and Building Rapport with Young People. 3. Working Towards Establishing Multi-Levelled Safety (Inner Safety, Emotional Safety, Physical Safety, Felt Safety). 4. Strategies for Supporting Children who have Experienced Relational and Developmental Trauma to Identify, Label, Express, and Regulate their Feelings. 5. Strength, Resilience, and Hope-Based Practices: Finding Ways to Identify, Notice, Celebrate and Build on Children's Strengths, Skills, Resilience and Positive Qualities. 6. Strengthening and Supporting "Parent-Child" Relationships, Relational Trust, and Interpersonal Connections. 7. Team Around the Family- Caring for the Caring- Holding Carers in Safe Hands, Thinking Minds, and Regulating Bodies. 8. Strategies for Understanding, Reducing and Managing Outbursts, Tantrums, Rage, and Expressions of Dysregulation. 9. Supporting Children who are Experiencing Nightmares and Sleep Difficulties. 10. Preparing, Planning, Reflecting on, and Expressing Endings, Changes, Goodbyes, and Transitions.
X marks the spot! The bestselling resource by Dr Treisman for working with children and teens with relational or developmental trauma combines theory, practice and creative expressive activities
Dr. Karen Treisman, MBE, is an award-winning specialist Clinical Psychologist, trainer, and bestselling author, working in London, UK. Karen is also the Director of Safe Hands and Thinking Minds Training and Consultancy services.
When we lift the lid on a child's trauma it can feel overwhelming
and impossible to address. Dr Karen Treisman's accessible,
insightful and resource laden book will change this for ever for
every practitioner, therapist, parent and carer and the precious
children they support.
*Jane Evans, Childhood Trauma & Parenting Expert, author of Cyril
Squirrel Finds Out About Love and How Are You Feeling Today Baby
Bear?*
Children are 'doers' more than they are talkers, and when we join
them in doing, we find we are able to discover the story at the
child's pace. Dr Treisman has given us a wonderful book to help us
to do this. Full of ideas, exercises and compassionate ways of
joining with children to fully discover who they are, and to help
them to manage difficulties that they are experiencing. This is
grounded in the best of what we know about relational trauma. This
book will enhance the most creative of us, and be a rich resource
for those of us who doubt our own creativity. It will give all of
us ways to go slower, to help children to feel safe enough to
reveal their own story, and to find the confidence to allow us to
share this story with their safe parents. Now healing can begin. My
treasure box is certainly richer for having this book on my
shelf.
*Dr. Kim S. Golding, Clinical Psychologist and author*
As a Treasure Box, Dr Treisman has created exactly what it says on
the tin. Embedded in the relational world of development, this book
takes us on a journey of thoughtful, sensitive, creative and deeply
moving interventions. The lives and minds of children and young
people can only be enriched if we embed this magic in our work.
*John Simmonds, OBE, Director of Policy, Research and Development
at CoramBAAF, London*
This book is an extraordinary achievement. It is packed with
myriad, tools, methods and suggestions that will be indispensable
to therapists, parents and anyone working with traumatised kids.
Most importantly, the book's simplicity is deceptive as every page
is built on the firm foundations of the latest science and a deep
understanding of the effects of developmental trauma. I predict
this will be a book that trauma therapists will be scared to leave
home without.
*Dr. Graham Music, Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic and
author of Nurturing Natures*
Relational trauma requires relational repair says Dr Treisman
throughout her book and it's a mantra worth repeating. Her book
explains what relational repair really involves, from creating
safety and regulation, to exploring complex and layered emotions to
tackling rage and sleep disturbances. It is packed with ideas and
materials to guide and support therapeutic conversations, much of
which could be used by therapeutic parents. What I especially love
is the combination of compassion both for child and parent and its
insistence on a sound, scientific approach. The pictures, the
pebbles, the glue and the glitter are all set within a robust
trauma-informed framework that reflect the emotional complexity of
building a meaningful relationship with a traumatised child.
For those who labour at the coalface of relational repair, it is a
nourishing read that will top up your therapeutic tank and make you
feel just that little bit more encouraged and cherished and perhaps
even vindicated. It deserves to be widely read by all those
involved in supporting the healing of relationally traumatised
children from commissioners, policy makers and academics right up
to foster carers and adoptive parents.
*Sally Donovan OBE, editor for Adoption UK and author of 'No Matter
What' and 'The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting'*
Are you working with traumatized children? Karen Treisman's book is
a MUST read!
This book is truly a treasure trove of ideas, resources,
illustrations, and practical photocopiable worksheets. It is
written in an accessible, engaging, and practitioner friendly way,
with a real focus on the "how to". It combines the latest trauma,
neuroscience, sensory, and attachment theories and then describes
how to intervene with children in an engaging, creative, and
multi-sensory way. The mantra of the book is "relational trauma
requires relational repair"; and this ethos echoes throughout the
entire book. The book covers the whole spectrum needing to be
addressed in a developmental trauma context, from assessment, to
strengths and resilience, to self-care, to specific presentations
such as outbursts and nightmares; through to endings and goodbyes.
This book is a MUST HAVE for mental health practitioners working
with traumatized children. In fact, this is the best mental health
book I have read this year!
*Liana Lowenstein MSW, RSW, CPT-S, Registered Clinical Social
Worker, Certified Play Therapist-Supervisor and Certified TF-CBT
Therapist*
Overflowing with creative ideas and activities, the thing that
makes this resource especially valuable is its sensitivity to the
ever-present need for safe containment when using intervention. The
author gently prompts our awareness of how creative ways of working
can provide safe access to the treasures within, for the children
so often hardest to reach. Logically organised and indexed, each
section is held together by well-written, informative insights.
*BACP - Children, Young People & Families*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |