Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories

Interventions for Therapists, Children, and Their Caregivers

Pat Pernicano

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415726917
• eBook ISBN: 9781317929383
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their caregivers. The therapy stories are perfect accompaniments to evidence-based treatment approaches and provide the foundation for psychoeducation and intervention with the older elementary-aged child or early pre-teen. Therapists will also benefit from the inclusion of thorough guides for children and caregivers, which illustrate trauma and developmental concepts in easy-to-understand terms. The psychoeducational material in the guides, written at a third- to fourth-grade reading level, may be used within any trauma-informed therapy model in the therapy office or sent-home for follow-up. Each therapy story illustrates trauma concepts, guides trauma narrative and cognitive restructuring work, and illuminates caregiver blind spots; the caregiver stories target issues that often become barriers to family trauma recovery. No therapist who works with young trauma survivors will want to be without this book, and school-based professionals, social workers, psychologists and others committed to working with traumatized children will find the book chock-full of game-changing ideas for their practice.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface: Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories
• Acknowledgements
• Part I Therapist Guide for Use of Trauma-Related Therapy Stories
• Part II Therapy Stories to Use with Children
• Part III Therapy Stories to Use with Adolescents
• Part IV Therapy Stories to Use with Caregivers
• Part V Child’s Guide to Trauma
• Part VI Caregiver’s Guide to Trauma
• Appendix A Resources for Abused Children and Their Caregivers
• Appendix B Example of Trauma Stress Chain Reaction and State-Dependent Functioning
• Appendix C Signs of Trauma at Different Ages and Stages
• Appendix D Overlap of Trauma Symptoms with other Disorders
• Appendix E Tuning in to Your Child
• References
• Index