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Treating Traumatized Children

Autor Beverly James
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2009
Listening to a small child describe a parent's murder can tax the most seasoned professional. Cases of physical and sexual abuse where trauma was deliberately inflicted can particularly challenge a practitioner's defenses.

Treating Traumatized Children is the first handbook to provide specific guidance and tools for treating children who have been traumatized by physical and sexual abuse, disaster, divorce, or witnessing violent events. This book will provide helping professionals with a clear blueprint for assessing the impact of trauma and developing specific treatment plans.

Beverly James, a specialist in evaluating and treating traumatized children, outlines creative exercises and techniques that will enable clinicians to join with children in slowly and carefully reviewing their experiences and helping them understand and accept their feelings related to the trauma. Art, play, and drama techniques, among others, are presented in a sophisticated yet straightforward style, useful to clinicians with specialized training in such techniques or those using them for the first time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439157343
ISBN-10: 1439157340
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:09000
Editura: Free Press
Colecția Free Press

Notă biografică

Beverly James is a clinical social worker who has specialized in evaluating and treating traumatized children for the past twelve years. She has authored a number of articles and coauthored Treating Sexually Abused Children and Their Families. Currently director of the James Institute in Kona, Hawaii, her training skills have brought her national and international recognition.

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Chapter 1

What Is Trauma?

Trauma, to paraphrase Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, is an emotional shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to an individual's psychological development. As used in this book, "trauma" also refers to overwhelming, uncontrollable experiences that psychologically impact victims by creating in them feelings of helplessness, vulnerability, loss of safety, and loss of control. Although other emotional reactions may be seen (or may exist and not be seen), these are the states most likely to be present and to be uncovered by a clinician. The child victim may exhibit severe psychiatric symptoms or may superficially appear symptom-free.

The impact of an event in a child's life cannot be assessed in isolation.

An event traumatic to one youngster may be just a bad experience to another, or it may be traumatizing at one stage in life and not traumatizing earlier or later. The experience may, in fact, be a challenge to some children, who are strengthened by having met the challenge and coped with their situations. The child's constitution, temperament, strengths, sensitivities, developmental phase, attachments, insight, abilities; the reactions of his loved ones; and the support and resources available to him, all contribute to how an event is experienced, what it means to the child, and whether or not it is traumatizing at that specific time in the child's life.

The traumatizing event may be a single occurrence such as witnessing violence or an injury to self, or a series of interactions which, in totality, is traumatic. Examples might include incest, a long exposure to deprivation, a prolonged custody battle, surviving an airplane crash, or seeing people killed during war. The trauma may be directly physical, such as involvement in an accident, or solely psychological, as may occur when a child witnesses a disaster in which people are killed or injured, or when a parent whispers erotic longings to him.

Children have always been traumatized. It is only recently, however, that researchers and clinicians have begun to pay special attention to the effects of trauma on children -- attention that is probably an outgrowth of social, political, and technological changes. Reporting systems and communication improvements have brought about an awareness of the widespread sexual abuse of children. Post-traumatic stress disorder has been identified in Viet Nam war veterans. The women's movement has brought us to a greater awareness of the problems of rape and incest. Trauma is not new, but how we recognize and deal with it is new.

Research suggests that the impact of trauma on a child may have lifelong psychobiological consequences, depending on the developmental stage of the child at the time of trauma, his coping abilities, and the meaning of the event to the child. As research continues and theories are developed and refined, we should expect new implications for treatment that will assist the clinician in working with these children.

Copyright © 1989 by The Free Press

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Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. What Is Trauma?

2. Critical Aspects of Treatment


Returning to the Pain

Developmentally Sequenced Treatment

Involvement of Child's Caregivers

Direct, Open Approach

Intense, Fun Style

Multidimensional Strategy

Hidden Trauma-Reactive Behaviors

Therapist's Responses to Children's Experiences

Summary

3. Traumagenic States to Be Considered in Treatment Planning

Self-Blame

Powerlessness

Loss and Betrayal

Fragmentation of Bodily Experience

Stigmatization

Eroticization

Destructiveness

Dissociative/Multiple Disorder

Attachment Disorder

Summary

4. Guidelines for Evaluation and Treatment Planning

Clarifying Needs, Expectations, and the Therapist's Role

Physical Examination

Comprehensive Background Information

Parent Interviews

Collateral Interviews

Child Assessment

Written Report

Summary

5. Basic Treatment Process

Communication

Sorting Out

Education

Perspective

Summary

6. Explaining Therapy to the Child

Explanatory Metaphors

Summary

7. Self-Blame

Responsibility

Creative Support for INMF

Privacy versus Secrecy

Religious Support

Summary

8. Powerlessness

Empowering Process

From Victim to Survivor

Summary

9. Destructive/Abusive Behaviors

Protection

Control

Underlying Issues

Community Members as Clinical Helpers

Dual Focus for Victim-Victimizing Child

Summary

10. Body Integrity

Body Awareness

Emotions Related to Body Trauma

Education Related to Body Trauma

Child's Perspective of Body Trauma

Summary

11. The Dissociatively Disordered Child

Dissociative Disorders

Multiple Personality Disorder

Diagnosing Dissociative Disorders

Treating the Dissociatively Disordered

Summary

12 Attachment Disturbance

Loss and Disruption

Reunification

Impaired Attachment

Summary

13 Social Rehabilitation

The Socially Inept Child

The Eroticized Child

The Agitated Child

The Socially Inhibited Child

Summary

14. Integration of Traumatizing Events

Clarifying Why Returning to the Pain Is Necessary

Restructuring the Traumatizing Event as a Victorious Survivor

Dealing Directly with Traumatizing Events

Experiencing Mastery

Summary

15. Open-Door Termination

16. Crisis Intervention in Large-Scale Disasters


Authority: Who's in Charge?

Obtain Current Information

Assessment and Interventions

Resources

Post-Disaster Follow Up

Summary

17. Techniques and Exercises

18. Theoretical, Developmental, and Experiential Foundations:
A Personal Story

Bibliography
Appendix A: Resources

Appendix B: Behavioral Checklist to Help Aid Identification of MPD in Children and Adolescents

Appendix C: How to Recognize Why a Child's Behavior Activity and Learning Ability Changes

Appendix D: The Children's Garden Attachment Model

Appendix E: Child/Therapist Work Chart

Parent/Caregiver Work Chart

Appendix F: Parent/Child Supervision Guideline

Appendix G: Songs

Index

About the Author