Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery

by Brom; Danny

• ISBN13: 9780415426367
• ISBN10: 0415426367
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

While recent years have seen a vast increase in the literature on adult trauma, interest in childhood trauma has only recently started to gain momentum, encouraging new research and evidence-based interventions. Here the editors have brought together an international list of contributors to look at both innovative and established treatments of trauma in a range of contexts, and provide up-to-date coverage of what is on offer in prevention, assessment, treatment and research. Divided into three parts, main topics discussed are: risk and protective factors for the development of post-traumatic disorders conceptualizations of resilience and suggestions for making them operational evidence-based treatment models for traumatized children Treating Traumatized Childrenprovides professionals with an up-to-date international perspective on the subject, as well as helping professionals and researchers develop future treatments based on current evidence.

Table of Contents

Notes on the editors and contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Promoting "resilient" posttraumatic adjustment in childhood and beyond: "unpacking" life events, adjustment trajectories, resources, and interventions	p. 13
Risk and protective factors	p. 49
The search for risk and protective factors in childhood PTSD: from variables to processes	p. 51
Parenting in the throes of traumatic events: risks and protection	p. 72
A developmental approach: looking at the specificity of reactions to trauma in infants	p. 85
Physical and mental health functioning in Sudanese unaccompanied minors	p. 102
Risk and resilience in young Londoners	p. 117
Resilience	p. 131
Resilience as the capacity for processing traumatic experiences	p. 133
Resiliency and resource loss in times of terrorism and disaster: lessons learned for children and families and those left untaught	p. 150
Ecological resilience: working with child-related psychosocial resources in war-affected communities	p. 164
Bolstering resilience: benefiting from lessons learned	p. 183
Recovery: empirically based systemic interventions for traumatized children	p. 193
Prevention and treatment interventions for traumatized children: restoring children's capacities for self-regulation	p. 195
Using dyadic therapies to treat traumatized young children	p. 210
Group treatment for chronically traumatized adolescents: igniting SPARCS of change	p. 225
Family-based treatment for child traumatic stress: a review and report on current innovations	p. 240
Transforming troubled children into tomorrow's heroes	p. 255
Toward a developing science and practice of childhood traumatic stress: concluding comments	p. 269
Index	p. 277
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