ABSTRACT

Nurturing Children describes children’s lives transformed through therapy. 

Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis alongside modern developmental thinking from neurobiology, attachment and trauma theory and mindfulness, Music creates his own distinctive blend of approaches to help even the most traumatised of children.

A mix of personal accounts and therapeutic riches, Nurturing Children will appeal to anyone helping children, young people and families to lead fuller lives.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|12 pages

One foot in the ditch

chapter 3|12 pages

Resilience, mismatches and repair

chapter 4|16 pages

Attachment and jumpy untrusting kids

chapter 5|16 pages

Stuart

55Growing an ‘inner executive’ and a mind to think thoughts

chapter 6|16 pages

Left hemispheres rule, feelings avoided

71Jenny and Edward

chapter 7|16 pages

Neglected children

Why it is easy yet dangerous to neglect neglect

chapter 8|14 pages

Bringing up the bodies

Body awareness and easeful selves

chapter 9|16 pages

Trauma and treading carefully

chapter 10|12 pages

Angels and devils

Sadism and violence in children

chapter 11|12 pages

Altruism and compassion

How they can be turned on and off

chapter 12|16 pages

Addiction, tech and the web

New dangers hijacking old systems

chapter 13|12 pages

Freeing the scapegoat by containing not blaming

173Thoughts on schools-based therapeutic work (with Becky Hall)

chapter 14|6 pages

Concluding thoughts