The Complete Guide to Therapeutic Parenting

by Jane Mitchell, Sarah Naish

This is the go-to guide for practitioners, parents and carers who want to expand their understanding and skills for therapeutic parenting - a deeply nurturing parenting style particularly effective for children who have experienced trauma or adversity. It provides an easy to understand explanation of the latest theory and research in trauma and neuroscience, and explains how these relate to everyday parenting strategies. It provides clarity on complex areas, such as early developmental trauma in children, and insights into key challenges, including managing transitions, sibling relationships, challenging behaviour, the teenage years, and how to find time and space for self-care. With experience, professional expertise, and text features to aid learning throughout, this book is the one-stop shop for everyone wanting to truly understand every aspect of therapeutic parenting and trauma.

320 pages, Paperback

Published November 19, 2020

About the author

Jane Mitchell was born in England, but she moved to Ireland later on, where she studied in Trinity College, Dublin, and taught elementary school children for a while before working in the community with at-risk teenagers who had dropped out of formal education.

She has also worked with young adults with disabilities.

Reviews

[Lora Starkings · Rating 4 out of 5]

A much more complex overview about Therapeutic parenting which goes hand in hand with the practical Sarah Naish books. A must for any parent of fostered of adopted children.

[Ryan Godolphin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid very informative

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so useful. Let me count the ways.

Useful for:

• it's designed audience, parents of children with trauma.
• parents of children with autism
• adults who were children with trauma

The trauma monster and room 1 and room 2. As a kid I could never articulate trauma, and I still struggle but these terms explain it perfectly. Please write a book for adults and teens who have trauma!

I have found many techniques for parenting my autistic son (who is also probably slightly traumatised by the pandemic). I did also feel very supported and learned techniques for dealing with other parents who offer inappropriate advice towards how to parent my son.