Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children - Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
Description
Learn to build the trust you need to help children in crisis!
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect is a therapeutic guide to helping troubled children move beyond the traumatic experiences that haunt them. Author Dr. Richard Kagan, Director of Psychological Services for Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York, presents comprehensive information on how to understand—and surmount—the impact of loss, neglect, separation, and violence on children’s development, how to discover and foster strengths in children and their families, and how to rebuild connections and hope for children who are at risk of harm to themselves and others. This unique book is designed to be used in tandem with Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children (Haworth), an innovative workbook that helps children develop the self-esteem they need to overcome the worries and fears of their past through a creative arts approach that fosters positive values and a sense of pride.
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children helps children move from negative or suppressed memories to a more positive perspective, not by denying hardships, but by drawing strength from the supportive people in their lives. Practitioners can use the book as a framework and detailed guide to assessment, engagement, development of service plans, and implementation of attachment and trauma therapy. The book is a comprehensive model for working to build the trust necessary before other trauma therapy approaches can be successfully initiated.
Topics examined in Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children include:
attachment theory and research
types of attachment problems
PTSD behaviors
permanency work with children in placement
ADHD, bipolar, and RAD
cognitive behavioral therapies
storytelling therapies
the myth of perfection
neuropsychological patterns
and much more!
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children is a rich resource for practitioners, academics, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and anyone working to show troubled children how to learn from the past, resolve problems in the present, and build a better future.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: LIFELINES
Chapter 1. Attachment
Trauma Damage to Neurodevelopment
Attachment Theory and Research
Attachment and Behavior Patterns
Attachment and Behavior Problems
Facilitating Attachment
Promoting Resilience
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Angel or Demon?
Two Boys
The Impact of Neglect and Violence
Trauma and Neurological Functioning: Theory and Research
Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Curse of Neglect
Introduction
How Neglect Disrupts Attachment
Neglect and the Social Service System
Statistics and Research on Abuse and Neglect
Conclusion
Part II: Rebuilding Attachments
Chapter 4. Breaking the Curse
Introduction
Myths That Perpetuate Abuse and Neglect
Obstacles to Rebuilding Attachments
Methods of Rebuilding Attachments
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Restoring Hope and Safety
Introduction
Investigating Child Abuse and Neglect
Developing Service Plans for Traumatized Children in Placement
Chapter 6. Reparenting the Hurt Child
Introduction
Tools for Parenting Traumatized Children
Steps and Tools for Rebuilding Attachment
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Permanency
Introduction
Activities That Foster Attachment
Rights and Responsibilities Within Families
Skill-Building Activities
Signs of Attachment
Conclusion
Part III: The Making of a Hero
Chapter 8. Telling the Story
Introduction
Trauma Therapy
Life Stories: From Shame to Strength
Detoxifying Traumas
Chapter 9. Real Life Heroes
Life-Story Work
The Real Life Heroes Workbook
Redefining Heroes for Children
Finding Heroes
Supporting Heroes
Protecting Heroes
The Hero’s Challenge
Chapter 10. The Magic of Parents
Understanding and Treating Trauma and Attachment Disorders
Rising Above Trauma
The Parent’s Life Story
Chapter 11. A Hero’s Story: Using the Real Life Heroes Workbook
Introduction
Beginning the Journey
Contents of Workbook
Objectives of Workbook
Adapting the Workbook for Adolescents and Young Children
Facilitating Storytelling
Self-Soothing Skills
Attachment and Trauma Therapy
Adoption
Completion of the Workbook
Chapter 12. Impasse and Beyond
Introduction
Getting Past the Impossible
Calling a Crisis
Therapeutic Tools for Breaking Impasse
Obstacles to Breaking Impasse
Beyond Impasse
Chapter 13. Into the Future
The Quest
The Therapist’s Role
Crossing the Threshold
Reconnecting
Working with Time
Advocacy for Parents
The Making of a Hero
Appendix A: Important People
Appendix B: Attachment Ecogram
Appendix C: Outline of Assessments and Interventions
Appendix D: Real Life Heroes; A Progressive, Developmental Curriculum
Overview
Introduction of the Real Life Heroes Model
Caring Adult Resource Development
Chapter by Chapter, Developing Strengths
Completion of Life Story Work
Appendix E: Chapter by Chapter, Stronger and Stronger
Appendix F: Utilizing Impasse
Appendix G: Game Therapy Illustration
Notes
References
Index
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect is a therapeutic guide to helping troubled children move beyond the traumatic experiences that haunt them. Author Dr. Richard Kagan, Director of Psychological Services for Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York, presents comprehensive information on how to understand—and surmount—the impact of loss, neglect, separation, and violence on children’s development, how to discover and foster strengths in children and their families, and how to rebuild connections and hope for children who are at risk of harm to themselves and others. This unique book is designed to be used in tandem with Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children (Haworth), an innovative workbook that helps children develop the self-esteem they need to overcome the worries and fears of their past through a creative arts approach that fosters positive values and a sense of pride.
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children helps children move from negative or suppressed memories to a more positive perspective, not by denying hardships, but by drawing strength from the supportive people in their lives. Practitioners can use the book as a framework and detailed guide to assessment, engagement, development of service plans, and implementation of attachment and trauma therapy. The book is a comprehensive model for working to build the trust necessary before other trauma therapy approaches can be successfully initiated.
Topics examined in Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children include:
attachment theory and research
types of attachment problems
PTSD behaviors
permanency work with children in placement
ADHD, bipolar, and RAD
cognitive behavioral therapies
storytelling therapies
the myth of perfection
neuropsychological patterns
and much more!
Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children is a rich resource for practitioners, academics, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and anyone working to show troubled children how to learn from the past, resolve problems in the present, and build a better future.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: LIFELINES
Chapter 1. Attachment
Trauma Damage to Neurodevelopment
Attachment Theory and Research
Attachment and Behavior Patterns
Attachment and Behavior Problems
Facilitating Attachment
Promoting Resilience
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Angel or Demon?
Two Boys
The Impact of Neglect and Violence
Trauma and Neurological Functioning: Theory and Research
Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Curse of Neglect
Introduction
How Neglect Disrupts Attachment
Neglect and the Social Service System
Statistics and Research on Abuse and Neglect
Conclusion
Part II: Rebuilding Attachments
Chapter 4. Breaking the Curse
Introduction
Myths That Perpetuate Abuse and Neglect
Obstacles to Rebuilding Attachments
Methods of Rebuilding Attachments
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Restoring Hope and Safety
Introduction
Investigating Child Abuse and Neglect
Developing Service Plans for Traumatized Children in Placement
Chapter 6. Reparenting the Hurt Child
Introduction
Tools for Parenting Traumatized Children
Steps and Tools for Rebuilding Attachment
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Permanency
Introduction
Activities That Foster Attachment
Rights and Responsibilities Within Families
Skill-Building Activities
Signs of Attachment
Conclusion
Part III: The Making of a Hero
Chapter 8. Telling the Story
Introduction
Trauma Therapy
Life Stories: From Shame to Strength
Detoxifying Traumas
Chapter 9. Real Life Heroes
Life-Story Work
The Real Life Heroes Workbook
Redefining Heroes for Children
Finding Heroes
Supporting Heroes
Protecting Heroes
The Hero’s Challenge
Chapter 10. The Magic of Parents
Understanding and Treating Trauma and Attachment Disorders
Rising Above Trauma
The Parent’s Life Story
Chapter 11. A Hero’s Story: Using the Real Life Heroes Workbook
Introduction
Beginning the Journey
Contents of Workbook
Objectives of Workbook
Adapting the Workbook for Adolescents and Young Children
Facilitating Storytelling
Self-Soothing Skills
Attachment and Trauma Therapy
Adoption
Completion of the Workbook
Chapter 12. Impasse and Beyond
Introduction
Getting Past the Impossible
Calling a Crisis
Therapeutic Tools for Breaking Impasse
Obstacles to Breaking Impasse
Beyond Impasse
Chapter 13. Into the Future
The Quest
The Therapist’s Role
Crossing the Threshold
Reconnecting
Working with Time
Advocacy for Parents
The Making of a Hero
Appendix A: Important People
Appendix B: Attachment Ecogram
Appendix C: Outline of Assessments and Interventions
Appendix D: Real Life Heroes; A Progressive, Developmental Curriculum
Overview
Introduction of the Real Life Heroes Model
Caring Adult Resource Development
Chapter by Chapter, Developing Strengths
Completion of Life Story Work
Appendix E: Chapter by Chapter, Stronger and Stronger
Appendix F: Utilizing Impasse
Appendix G: Game Therapy Illustration
Notes
References
Index