Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
Rich with case material and artwork samples, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book especially practical and user-friendly....
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Rich with case material and artwork samples, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book especially practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences addressed include parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Broader approaches to promoting resilience and preventing posttraumatic problems in children at risk are also presented. Crisis and Loss Illness "The book has a rich collection of black and white sketches that are worth the price of the book on its own merit. They speak when words fail....The book has good reference information, organized by chapters."--Illness, Crisis and Loss
Creative Interventions and Children: Basics of PracticeCreative Interventions and Childhood Trauma Cathy A. Malchiodi 3Effective Practice with Traumatized Children: Ethics, Evidence, and Cultural Sensitivity Cathy A. Malchiodi 22Creative Interventions with IndividualsExpressive Therapy for Severe Maltreatment and Attachment Disorders: A Neuroscience Framework P. Gussie Klorer 43Music and Grief Work with Children and Adolescents Russell E. Hilliard 62Grieving in the Public Eye: Art Therapy with Children Who Lost Parents in the World Trade Center Attacks Laura V. Loumeau-May 81Medical Art and Play Therapy with Accident Survivors Elizabeth Sanders Martin 112Creative Approaches to Minimize the Traumatic Impact of Bullying Behavior Diane S. Safran Elysa R. Safran 132Trauma, Loss, and Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Stories Cathy A. Malchiodi Deanne Ginns-Gruenberg 167Creative Interventions with Families and GroupsCreative Crisis Intervention Techniques with Children and Families Lennis G. Echterling Anne Stewart 189Working Creatively with Children and Their Families after Trauma: The Storied Life Ann Cattanach 211Vanquishing Monsters: DramaTherapy for Treating Childhood Trauma in the Group Setting Craig Haen 225A Group Art and Play Therapy Program for Children from Violent Homes Cathy A. Malchiodi 247Interventions for Parents of Traumatized Children William Steele Cathy A. Malchiodi 264Creative Intervention as PreventionResilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Traumatized Children Cathy A. Malchiodi William Steele Caelan Kuban 285Ready ..., Set ..., Relax!: Relaxation Strategies with Children and Adolescents Roger J. Klein 302Index 321
\ Crisis and Loss Illness"The book has a rich collection of black and white sketches that are worth the price of the book on its own merit. They speak when words fail....The book has good reference information, organized by chapters."--Illness, Crisis and Loss\ \ \ \ \ Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal"This book provides a thorough look into expressive interventions used in trauma, grief, and crisis with children. Malchiodi's carefully edited chapters are easy to read and absorbing....Each chapter illuminates a particular aspect of creative therapies [including] music therapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy, and play therapy. I would recommend this book as it provides step by step strategies and the thought-provoking examples of case work from Malchiodi's own practice and other practitioners....Malchiodi's book is an important contribution to the research in creative interventions and traumatized children and it's no wonder, she is so highly regarded in the art therapy community."--Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal\ \ \ From the Publisher"Malchiodi is a widely read and well-respected art therapist whose work on the treatment of childhood trauma is exemplary. This book addresses the rich array of therapies to which terrified youngsters respond. For the newcomer to the field who wishes to learn how drawings, doll play, music, relaxation, and storytelling may be used after devastating events--or for the old hand at working with kids who wants a good review of what's new--this is just the book."--Lenore C. Terr, MD, author of Magical Moments of Change\ "This comprehensive resource delivers everything the title promises and more. Grounded in current trauma theory, the book presents creative, evidence-based therapeutic approaches developed specifically for children and adolescents. It also provides a clear understanding of childhood PTSD and its implications for treatment. Overall, the chapters emphasize an integrative perspective that interweaves counseling theory with creative modalities. I highly recommend this book to practitioners and would also use it as a training text for students."--Elizabeth A. Warson, MA, ATR-BC, Graduate Art Therapy Program, Eastern Virginia Medical School\ "Malchiodi has put together an invaluable resource that is chock full of highly creative and innovative interventions for traumatized children. The all-star lineup of contributors have written solid, user-friendly chapters on doing effective expressive therapy work with children who have experienced many types of trauma. This is a timely, welcome contribution to the child trauma and psychotherapy literature--a terrific book that will greatly benefit therapists working in the trenches with these challenging children and their families."--Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, Codirector, Partners for Collaborative Solutions, Evanston, Illinois\ \ \ \ \ \ Art Therapy"Malchiodi puts forth a comprehensive guide for professionals utilizing the creative arts therapies in child trauma work. The book is well structured and each chapter offers the reader a deeper understanding of specific creative applications and useful interventions for working with traumatized children, families, and groups....An excellent resource for practitioners and provides its readers with strategies for working with children who have been exposed to a wide range of traumatic experiences. I found Malchiodi's presentation of the neurobiological effects of trauma to be an exciting introduction to new ways of looking at trauma work with children. It serves as a foundation for the important and moving work described by the contributing authors and sets the tone for the book....The text is well organized and the information is presented in a format that is easy to read and very practical. I highly recommend this book to professionals working with children who have experienced trauma, as well as practitioners who are interested in applying creative interventions to their practice."--Art Therapy\ \ \ \ \ Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal"I would recommend this well researched and well informed book to therapists working in schools with children of displaced, disenfranchised survivors of war, and disaster and those working with families around the world who are struggling to make sense of their traumatizing experiences....This book is packed with suggested activities for therapists to help restore the child's sense of safety and ability to function creatively and spontaneously, by rebuilding their own internal resource as a coping measure against the many minor traumas we all 'suffer' and have to deal with in everyday life."--Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal\ \ \ \ \ Crisis and Loss Illness"The book has a rich collection of black and white sketches that are worth the price of the book on its own merit. They speak when words fail....The book has good reference information, organized by chapters."--Illness, Crisis and Loss\ \ \ \ \ \ Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal"This book provides a thorough look into expressive interventions used in trauma, grief, and crisis with children. Malchiodi''s carefully edited chapters are easy to read and absorbing....Each chapter illuminates a particular aspect of creative therapies [including] music therapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy, and play therapy. I would recommend this book as it provides step by step strategies and the thought-provoking examples of case work from Malchiodi''s own practice and other practitioners....Malchiodi''s book is an important contribution to the research in creative interventions and traumatized children and it''s no wonder, she is so highly regarded in the art therapy community."--Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal\ \ \
