Clinical exercises for treating traumatic stress in children and adolescents : practical guidance and ready-to-use resources / Damion J. Grasso.

How do I implement effective strategies for treating traumatic stress in this particular child or adolescent? Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents combines guidance for personalizing and implementing effective treatment approaches with practical materials to u...

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Main Author: Grasso, Damion J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 Getting Started. How to use this resource
  • What is trauma work?
  • Evidence-based models
  • Making a problem list and monitoring progress
  • Part 2. Preparing children for trauma work. Enhancing social and personal resources
  • What is trauma and how does it affect us?
  • How will psychotherapy help?
  • Regulating intense emotion from the bottom up
  • Regulating intense emotion from the top down
  • Making healthy lifestyle choices
  • Emotional vocabulary and awareness
  • Tolerating trauma work
  • Part 3. Trauma work with the child. Starting the trauma work
  • Indirect therapeutic exposure
  • Low-level therapeutic exposure
  • High-level therapeutic exposure
  • Trauma memory processing
  • In-vivo exposure
  • Part 4. Working with the caregiver. What does the caregiver bring to the table?
  • What is trauma and how does it affect my child?
  • How will psychotherapy help my child?
  • Bringing it home
  • Managing difficult behaviour
  • Engaging families with barriers to treatment.