Healing Trauma in Children: A practical guide for foster and kinship carers - Softcover

Kennedy, Sonia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925644537 ISBN 13: 9781925644531

Publisher: Australian Academic Press, 2021

Synopsis

This book aims to help foster and kinship carers understand trauma and its impact on the vulnerable child they are caring for. It gives practical strategies for dealing with day-to-day care emergencies as well as more long-term solutions. It is not about medication; it's not about behaviour management plans, punishment, judgement, or diagnosis. It is about developing a carer's awareness, kindness, compassion, patience, strength, and education.

About this title

About the Author

Sonia Kennedy is an Australian clinical social worker with over 20 years of private and public clinical and training experience. She is an accredited mental health clinician and an approved counsellor with Victim Services NSW and has worked with adults, adolescents, children and adults. Sonia has experience in a range of settings, including child protection, corrections, education, and veterans and family counselling. Her professional work experience includes eight years at the Department of Family and Community Services and seventeen years in her own rural-based private practice contracting to a number of government and non-government organisations. She has provided clinical supervision to patient/client care staff and has extensive experience in cancer counselling and support, workplace and relationship issues, traumatic events, grief and loss, sexual assault, and family violence. She has significant experience in treating post-trauma stress reactions, complex PTSD, anxiety and depression. Sonia uses Trauma Informed Therapy, CBT, DBT, Systems Theory, Sensorimotor and Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy to help clients gain symptom relief and improve their general life quality. She also has specialised experience in child development, parent/child attachment and the interface of these experiences on adult health and functioning across the lifespan. Sonia's clinical focus is on effective, evidence-based practice in psychotherapy and holistic wellbeing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Australian Academic Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925644537
• ISBN 13: 9781925644531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172