A Safe Place to Grow: A Group Treatment Manual for Children in Conflicted, Violent, and Separating Homes
Discover the effective group treatment strategies that help your school-aged clients!\ A child immersed in a conflicted family life may be forced to cope with a multitude of trauma, including violence, abuse, and insecurity. In A Safe Place to Grow: A Group Treatment Manual for Children in Conflicted, Violent, and Separating Homes, highly respected experts give mental health professionals the tools to provide effective group treatment for children scarred by family environments of conflict...
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Discover the effective group treatment strategies that help your school-aged clients! A child immersed in a conflicted family life may be forced to cope with a multitude of trauma, including violence, abuse, and insecurity. In A Safe Place to Grow: A Group Treatment Manual for Children in Conflicted, Violent, and Separating Homes, highly respected experts give mental health professionals the tools to provide effective group treatment for children scarred by family environments of conflict and abuse. This easy-to-understand, step-by-step manual is a developmentally appropriate treatment curriculum for traumatized school-aged children. Age-appropriate sections separate therapy for big or little kids, focusing on efficacy while presenting a comfortable multi-ethnic, multi-cultural model.A Safe Place to Grow has easy-to-understand descriptions of techniques, with each session in the curriculum containing games and activities that are therapeutic yet flexible enough to be modified whenever the situation warrants. A chapter is included to helpfully troubleshoot problems encountered when in session with either age group of children. Useful illustrations accompany the text, along with a comprehensive bibliography listing additional therapeutic resources for different types of family problems. Appendixes are included for instruction on psycho-educational groups for parents that enhance their sensitivity to their children’s needs, as well as providing an evaluation study of the group model itself.A Safe Place to Grow provides a sequence of activities within the group model aimed at each of these five goals: creating common ground and safety exploring the language and complexity of feeling defining and understanding the self defining and revising roles and relationships restoring a moral orderA Safe Place to Grow is an essential resource for social workers, psychologists, family and child therapists, school counselors, and battered women and children’s advocates.
Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: LITTLE KIDS’ (LK) MANUAL LK Session 1. Saying Hello and Making Me Feel Safe in Group LK Session 2. How I Am Feeling: Same and Different LK Session 3. Feeling Words and Faces: Who I Am LK Session 4. Exploring Levels of Feeling LK Session 5. Managing My Good and Bad Feelings at One Time LK Session 6. Feeling and Being Me: Separate and Together LK Session 7. It’s Okay to Be Different LK Session 8. Going Back and Forth: Managing Transitions and Change LK Session 9. Managing When Parents Fight LK Session 10. Safety Planning and Ways of Coping LK Session 11. Masking Feelings: My Inside and Outside Self LK Session 12. Remembering and Saying Good-Bye LK Session Tips and Guidelines PART II: BIG KIDS’ (BK) MANUAL BK Session 1. Saying Hello and Making a Safe Place to Work Together BK Session 2. Exploring Levels of Feelings, Actions, and Points of View BK Session 3. Making a Safe Inside Place and Learning the Rules of Role-Play BK Session 4. Exploring a Safe Inside Place and Back to Reality BK Session 5. Defining Wishes for Yourself and Rules That Work for Your Family and Relationships BK Session 6. Exploring the Mirror: Who You Are and How You Show Your Feelings BK Session 7. Exploring Your Inside Self and Your Outside Self BK Session 8. Making a Family Sculpture: Who We Are and Who We Could Be BK Session 9. Becoming the Experts on Living with Change, Loss, and Conflict BK Session 10. Telling Your Story So Far, Thinking About Who You Want to Be in the Future, and Saying Good-Bye PART III: APPENDIXES APPENDIX A. Troubleshooting for Both LK and BK Groups APPENDIX B. Psychoeducational Groups for Parents APPENDIX C. An Evaluation Study of the Group Model Notes Bibliography Index
