Child Trauma Handbook: A Guide For Helping Trauma-exposed Children And Adolescents

The Child Trauma Handbook is a comprehensive plain-language guide to treatment of trauma-exposed children and adolescents and those with trauma or loss-related issues. This no-nonsense manual helps professionals understand experientially through exercises how and why kids' behaviors can be related to their history of trauma while teaching practical hands-on clinical skills and interventions. Informally presented and easy-to-read, the user-friendly text includes illustrative case studies, recommended reading lists, treatment regimes, discussion questions, useful handouts, exercises, and an annotated bibliography, all in an 8 1/2 X 11 inch format that pulls together all aspects of working with children to become a full-spectrum, empirically based, trauma-informed treatment model. Clinicians as well as paraprofessional workers such as case managers, probation officers, and foster parents will find this to be an essential.