Child and Adolescent Mental Health Arena

The Thinking Heart

Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children

• By Anne Alvarez.

Published April 2012

How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live…
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Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors

A Clinician’s Guide

• By Lisa Ferentz.

Published March 2012

This is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, through the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other manifestations of deliberately "hurting the body" such as…
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Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents

• By William Steele, and Cathy A. Malchiodi.

Published October 2011

Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques. The approaches laid out address the sensory and…
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Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents

Theory and Clinical Interventions

• Edited by Sandra Wieland.

Published December 2010

Over the last decade, the literature on therapy addressing trauma in children has expanded considerably, as has the literature on dissociation. Unfortunately, very little of this literature has addressed the issue of dissociation in children. At the same time, therapists working with children and…
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Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity

Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Edited by Valerie Sinason.

Published November 2010

This Revised Edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity investigates the subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder. With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully updated to include new research and the latest understanding of patterns of attachment theory…
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Relational Trauma in Infancy

Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

• Edited by Tessa Baradon.

Published December 2009

This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes an innovative contribution to the field of infant mental health in bringing together previously separated paradigms of relational trauma…
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Cognitive Therapy with Children and Young People

• By Patrick Smith, Sean Perrin, William Yule and David M. Clark.

Published September 2009

Post traumatic stress disorder develops after exposure to one or more terrifying events that have caused, or threatened to cause the sufferer grave physical harm. This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive therapy can be used to help children and adolescents who suffer from post traumatic…
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Treating Traumatized Children

Risk, Resilience and Recovery

• Edited by Danny Brom, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk and Julian D. Ford.

Published October 2008

While recent years have seen a vast increase in the literature on adult trauma, interest in childhood trauma has only recently started to gain momentum, encouraging new research and evidence-based interventions. Here the editors have brought together an international list of contributors to look at…
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Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents

Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context

• By Kathleen Nader.

Published September 2007

In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to evaluating children and adolescents, and it is increasingly clear that reliance on just one type of…
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Mapping Trauma and Its Wake

Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars

• Edited by Charles R. Figley.

Published December 2005

Mapping Trauma and Its Wake is a compilation of autobiographic essays by seventeen of the field's pioneers, each of whom has been recognized for his or her contributions by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Each author discusses how he or she first got interested in the field,…
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