ABSTRACT
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their caregivers. The therapy stories are perfect accompaniments to evidence-based treatment approaches and provide the foundation for psychoeducation and intervention with the older elementary-aged child or early pre-teen. Therapists will also benefit from the inclusion of thorough guides for children and caregivers, which illustrate trauma and developmental concepts in easy-to-understand terms. The psychoeducational material in the guides, written at a third- to fourth-grade reading level, may be used within any trauma-informed therapy model in the therapy office or sent-home for follow-up. Each therapy story illustrates trauma concepts, guides trauma narrative and cognitive restructuring work, and illuminates caregiver blind spots; the caregiver stories target issues that often become barriers to family trauma recovery. No therapist who works with young trauma survivors will want to be without this book, and school-based professionals, social workers, psychologists and others committed to working with traumatized children will find the book chock-full of game-changing ideas for their practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
Therapist Guide for Use of Trauma-Related Therapy Stories
part |65 pages
Therapy Stories to Use with Children
chapter |16 pages
Psychoeducation
chapter |3 pages
Relaxation
chapter |7 pages
Affect Identification and Expression
chapter |13 pages
Cognitive Coping
chapter |6 pages
1 Trauma Narrative Work
chapter |3 pages
In Vivo Exposure
chapter |6 pages
Conjoint Parent—Child Work and Attachment Issues
chapter |9 pages
Ensuring Future Safety And Wellbeing
part |43 pages
Therapy Stories to Use with Adolescents
chapter |4 pages
Psychoeducation
chapter |7 pages
Affect Identification and Expression
chapter |11 pages
Cognitive Coping
chapter |11 pages
Chapter 14 1 Trauma Narrative
chapter |3 pages
Conjoint Parent-Child Work and Attachment Issues
chapter |5 pages
Enhancing Future Safety and Wellbeing
part |19 pages
Therapy Stories to Use with Caregivers
chapter |7 pages
Adult Issues and Blind Spots
chapter |10 pages
Parenting Issues
part |62 pages
Child's Guide to Trauma
chapter |2 pages
Introduction for the Child Reader
chapter |2 pages
The Impact of Abuse
chapter |3 pages
Freal out (Vigilance)
chapter |3 pages
Freeze or High Emotion (Alarm)
chapter |2 pages
Flight (Escape)
chapter |3 pages
Fight (Terror)
chapter |2 pages
Abuse and Trauma
chapter |2 pages
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Trauma
chapter |6 pages
How Stress Affects Kids
chapter |3 pages
Memory of Abuse
chapter |2 pages
How Adults can Help (or Hurt) Abused Kids
chapter |2 pages
The Trauma Chain Reaction: Freak Out
chapter |2 pages
The Trauma Chain Reaction: Freeze
chapter |2 pages
The Trauma Chain Reaction: Flight
chapter |3 pages
The Trauma Chain Reaction: Fight
chapter |2 pages
Your Own Chain Reaction
chapter |3 pages
What does Your Brain have to do with It?
chapter |1 pages
How Stress Changes Your Brain
chapter |4 pages
Coping Skills: Calm Down
chapter |5 pages
Coping Skills: Connect
chapter |6 pages
Coping Skills: Conquer
part |21 pages
Caregiver's Guide to Trauma