Traumatic Experience and the Brain: A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized As Children - Softcover

Ziegler, Dave, Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935089420 ISBN 13: 9781935089421

Publisher: Acacia Pub Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Traumatic Experience and the Brain is the result of Dr. Dave Ziegler's three decades of experience with children traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. Containing almost 100 pages of new material, this newly revised and updated second edition details the effect of trauma on the developing brain, describing how it actually rewires one's perceptions of self, others, and the world. It is a book of hope for foster, natural, and adoptive parents of such "broken" children and the therapists, teachers and social workers who attempt to help them. Dave Ziegler, M.S., Ph.D., is the director of Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment program in Oregon for some of society's most damaged children.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Dave Ziegler has seen, first hand, the effects on the brain of traumatic experiences during infancy and early childhood. As a result of his research and extensive experience with traumatized children, he describes in understandable terms the complex neural functioning of a very young brain. His work with trauma victims has exposed the formation of developmental psychopathology and the emotional triggers that are so resistant to change. His career is focused on ways to help traumatized individuals, and professionals who help them, learn new methods of healing deeply ingrained trauma. Dr. Ziegler is Executive Director of Jasper Mountain, a treatment program based in Oregon that treats some of society's most damaged children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Acacia Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935089420
• ISBN 13: 9781935089421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255