This expert guide provides 50 essential tools and activities to use in practice with children and young people who have experienced trauma.
From bubbles, balloons, and blocks to ghosts, monsters, and squiggles, this book offers a wealth of activities that help children to express their feelings and experiences while feeling safe and supported. Case studies demonstrate how each activity can be easily incorporated into daily interactions during social work practice, and clear explanations of the theory provide context for how they work.
Developed from decades of hands-on experience supporting children after trauma, this book demonstrates ways to sensitively discuss children’s histories. This can lead into discussing the way their experiences influence their behaviour, and help them to form healthy attachments for the future.
From bubbles, balloons, and blocks to ghosts, monsters, and squiggles, this book offers a wealth of activities that help children to express their feelings and experiences while feeling safe and supported. Case studies demonstrate how each activity can be easily incorporated into daily interactions during social work practice, and clear explanations of the theory provide context for how they work.
Developed from decades of hands-on experience supporting children after trauma, this book demonstrates ways to sensitively discuss children’s histories. This can lead into discussing the way their experiences influence their behaviour, and help them to form healthy attachments for the future.
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Reviews
A beautiful, entirely practical book on the art of connecting with our stories. An essential addition for anyone working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and ruptured relationships.
What an exquisite array! There has never been a more beautifully compiled nor lovingly collected "eclectic cupboard" to support trauma survivors. Rose has spent decades traveling the world, cultivating and gathering this unprecedented creative collection designed to help us connect with our young people. Readers will be dazzled with the scope and depth of the tools available to help clients reclaim and reshape their rightful stories. Your practice will never be the same!
What an incredibly rich resource, filled with practice wisdom, illustrative case vignettes and diverse, creative direct work tools - all grounded in a solid research base. With a strong emphasis on playfulness in work with traumatised children, I can easily imagine myself regularly dipping in and out of this book.