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Children and Complex Trauma: A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery
If you're a foster or adoptive parent, family caregiver, social worker, or professional supporting children who have experienced trauma, you may have felt confused and overwhelmed at some point. It may seem like typical parenting and strategies just don't work.
Children from difficult life situations can experience bewildering emotional and behavioural challenges. Often current approaches to help these kids are fragmented and ineffective. However, when we understand how trauma can affect the developing brain and adopt strategies that are complex trauma focused, we can turn these kids' lives around.
Children and Complex A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery presents simple, practical, and proven strategies - based around the Complex Care and Intervention Program. This approach, fine-tuned in well over 300 challenging cases, and supported by compelling outcome data, will help you answer questions
- Why does my child act like this?
- What do I need to understand about how these children's brains work?
- How can I help a child heal from past traumatic experiences?
- What proven strategies can help a child manage their big emotions?
There is a powerful message of hope in these pages and the case stories will forever transform how you understand and support children. It's also a roadmap for necessary changes in practices and policies across our systems so that we can help children heal from their pasts.
Children from difficult life situations can experience bewildering emotional and behavioural challenges. Often current approaches to help these kids are fragmented and ineffective. However, when we understand how trauma can affect the developing brain and adopt strategies that are complex trauma focused, we can turn these kids' lives around.
Children and Complex A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery presents simple, practical, and proven strategies - based around the Complex Care and Intervention Program. This approach, fine-tuned in well over 300 challenging cases, and supported by compelling outcome data, will help you answer questions
- Why does my child act like this?
- What do I need to understand about how these children's brains work?
- How can I help a child heal from past traumatic experiences?
- What proven strategies can help a child manage their big emotions?
There is a powerful message of hope in these pages and the case stories will forever transform how you understand and support children. It's also a roadmap for necessary changes in practices and policies across our systems so that we can help children heal from their pasts.
- GenresPsychology
216 pages, Paperback
Published January 20, 2022
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March 13, 2023
As a parent of a child with a history of complex trauma, I appreciate Dr. Geddes approach of treating the underlying issues facing the child, rather than behaviors or current diagnoses. This approach makes sense logically.
Dr. Geddes gives a handful of practical ideas to help children who have sufferers from trauma which is extremely helpful. I wish there were more practical tips, but as broad as complex trauma is, and with how unique each child is, I realize that practically speaking that would be a difficult task to do.
After reading this book, I do wonder if Dr. Geddes has interacted with these children outside of a clinical situation, as some of his advice may not seem the most practical and at times idealized. Obviously not all advice will work for every child, but examples in the book did not reflect the intensity of issues that sometimes arise.
One other issue that came up is that we currently use any techniques from Nancy L. Thomas that have been extremely useful and practical for our family. I do not see how Dr. Geddes’ premises could easily be put into practice alongside all of those from Nancy Thomas, as some even flat out contradict each other. Overall, I lean more towards the expertise of Nancy Thomas over Dr. Geddes, personally, which made this book less useful overall.
Dr. Geddes gives a handful of practical ideas to help children who have sufferers from trauma which is extremely helpful. I wish there were more practical tips, but as broad as complex trauma is, and with how unique each child is, I realize that practically speaking that would be a difficult task to do.
After reading this book, I do wonder if Dr. Geddes has interacted with these children outside of a clinical situation, as some of his advice may not seem the most practical and at times idealized. Obviously not all advice will work for every child, but examples in the book did not reflect the intensity of issues that sometimes arise.
One other issue that came up is that we currently use any techniques from Nancy L. Thomas that have been extremely useful and practical for our family. I do not see how Dr. Geddes’ premises could easily be put into practice alongside all of those from Nancy Thomas, as some even flat out contradict each other. Overall, I lean more towards the expertise of Nancy Thomas over Dr. Geddes, personally, which made this book less useful overall.
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