Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories: Interventions for Therapists, Children, and Their Caregivers - Softcover

Pernicano, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415726921 ISBN 13: 9780415726924

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Pat Pernicano, PsyD, is currently a psychologist with Personal Counseling Services and served as the director of clinical services at Providence House for Children between 2007 and 2013. She is associate professor on the clinical faculty at Spalding University, where she has taught in the PsyD program since 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415726921
• ISBN 13: 9780415726924
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272