Traumatic Experience and the Brain: A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized As Children

by Dave Ziegler

Traumatic Experience and the Brain is the result of Dr. Dave Ziegler's three decades of experience with children traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. This book details the effect of such trauma on the developing brain, describing how it actually rewires one's perceptions of self, others, and the world. It is a book of hope for foster, natural, and adoptive parents of such "broken" children and the therapists, teachers and social workers who attempt to help them. Dave Ziegler, M.S., Ph.D., is the director of Scar/Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment program in Oregon for some of society's most damaged children.

174 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 2002

Reviews

[Christine Fenton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend David Ziegler's book "Traumatic Experience and the Brain" to be read by anyone working with children who have been traumatized in any way, or even those working with adults who were truamatized when they were children. Dr. Ziegler presents the information in such a way that the average person can understand it, but it is still very insightful and there is a lot of new material in this, the 2nd, edition.

Based on his research and his own experence working with children who have been traumatized, Dr. Ziegler is able to explain to the average person the impact of trauma on a child's developing brain, and then he goes on to show how best to treat the child. This book has case examples to show how trauma has impacted children's brains and also to show how treatment can then be correctly implemented.

I found this book to be extremely interesting and full of a lot of helpful material. I feel it could be useful to anyone who works with children, or anyone who works with adults who have a history of past trauma.

Christine Fenton

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helped me to understand the many different ways our brain stores information to sheild us from both past and present traumatic experiences. If you are parenting special needs children the information revealed in this book can be helpful for selecting the therapies and therapists to help your child(ren).