A trusted, comprehensive resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children’s emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. 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 practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences discussed include parental loss, child abuse, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma.
New to This Edition:
*Updated and expanded discussions of trauma and of the neurobiological basis for creative interventions.
*Chapters on art therapy and EMDR, body maps and dissociation, sandtray play, resiliency-based movement therapy, work with clay, mindfulness, and stress reduction with music therapy.
*Highlights important developments in knowledge about self-regulation, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.
The book explains and defines trauma, with examples. Then it goes on to describe how trauma effects the physical body and the developmental processes of the child, which include those of the brain. These processes will include the way the child feels, thinks and believes. These are the things that will most likely need to be addressed in Therapy.
There are a number of Creative Therapies that are beneficial for children with trauma issues. In this book, the various Therapies are described by its assorted practitioners. Examples of specific interventions are described for varying circumstances. As you read them, they make perfect sense. You can understand how they would be effective.
I am a reader who does not like to wade through unnecessary verbiage for the purposes of making the writer appear “intellectual”. I like a smart (while obviously gifted) writer who writes what they know in a way that they convey their knowledge to the reader. That is what I find in Dr. Malchiodi’s books. Dr. Perry is a successful partner in this endeavor.
This book is a “must have” on any Therapist’s professional library shelf.