Mass Trauma and Violence: Helping Families and Children Cope
This book describes a range of effective ways to help children and families cope with major traumatic experiences such as community violence, war, and terrorist attacks. Detailed case examples bring to life the complexities of assessment and intervention with children of different ages and cultural backgrounds, including both survivors of one-time traumatic events and those dealing with ongoing stressors like the military deployment of a parent. Expert contributors provide guidelines for...
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This book describes a range of effective ways to help children and families cope with major traumatic experiences such as community violence, war, and terrorist attacks. Detailed case examples bring to life the complexities of assessment and intervention with children of different ages and cultural backgrounds, including both survivors of one-time traumatic events and those dealing with ongoing stressors like the military deployment of a parent. Expert contributors provide guidelines for setting up and running school- and clinic-based support groups; conducting brief and longer-term interventions with individuals and families; and promoting healing with art, music, and play. Grounded in the latest knowledge on stress and coping, bereavement, attachment, and risk and resilience, and including much-needed tips for therapist self-care, this is an essential clinical resource and text. Doody Review Services Reviewer:Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CATSM(Abbott Laboratories)Description:This is a needed reference for helping children and their families following terrorism and other mass trauma situations.Purpose:The purpose of this book is to highlight the impact that traumatic stress can have on children and their families and discusses a framework for helping based upon current literature in the areas of stress and coping, trauma, bereavement, attachment, and risk and resilience. Additionally, this book helps to fulfill the unmet need of helping children cope with mass trauma and is due in part to 9/11 and our current state of affairs. Unquestionably, this book exceeds the author's objectives and is an important addition to the field.Audience:The book is intended mainly for practitioners within the mental health field who work with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma; graduate students in training would benefit as well. The author is a well-known member of the mental health field and is a recognized leading authority on play therapy.Features:The book is broken down into three areas: Part One discusses a theoretical framework for assessment and treatment, Part Two discusses helping interventions, and Part Three discusses living with traumatic memories and ongoing fears. The contributing authors do an excellent job of discussing how trauma affects children, how long-term grief support groups can be beneficial to families and children. Chapter 7 is a tremendously powerful chapter which highlights "The Kids' Place," a group support center for children which opened after the Oklahoma City Bombing Tragedy of 1995.Assessment:Undoubtedly, this reference will become a must-read for those who work with traumatized children and their families. It represents a comprehensive, timely, and a strong addition to the field of mental health.
1The Impact of Traumatic Stress and Loss on Children and Families32A Developmental-Transactional Framework for Assessment of Children and Families Following a Mass Trauma233Treating Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Treatment Issues, Modalities, Timing, and Methods504Treatment of Childhood Traumatic Grief: Application of Cognitive-Behavioral and Client-Centered Therapies775Creation of a Group Mural to Promote Healing Following a Mass Trauma1006How Schools Respond to Traumatic Events: Debriefing Interventions and Beyond1207Ongoing, Long-Term Grief Support Groups for Traumatized Families1428Bereavement Group Soon after Traumatic Death1679Music Therapy to Help Traumatized Children and Caregivers19110Sandplay, Art, and Play Therapy to Promote Anxiety Reduction21611Community Outreach and Education to Deal with Cultural Resistance to Mental Health Services23412Treatment of Psychological Trauma in Children of Military Families25913A Drawing Technique for Diagnois and Therapy of Adolescents Suffering Traumatic Stress and Loss Related to Terrorism28314Living in the Shadow of Community Violence in Northern Ireland: A Therapeutic Response30415Avoiding Vicarious Traumatization: Support, Spirituality, and Self-Care32716Ongoing Issues and Challenges for Mental Health Professionals Working with Survivors of Mass Trauma347Appendix361Index367
\ From the Publisher"This comprehensive volume should be on the desk of any clinician who works with traumatized children and families, whether in clinical, community, educational, or medical settings. It is an ideal text for both seasoned professionals and graduate students in all of the helping professions. Detailed case examples and descriptions of clinical and community interventions provide 'everything you need to know' about helping clients heal from large-scale traumatic incidents."--Cathy A. Malchiodi, ATR, CPAT, LPCC, National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children\ "Much still remains to be learned about how mass trauma affects children and families and how its harmful impact can be reduced. In the absence of decisive evidence, this book fills the gap by outlining what is currently known and making valuable recommendations for practice. Given previous terrorist acts, current threats, and the ongoing separation of children from parents who serve in the military, this book addresses a very timely issue and does so with clarity and wisdom."--Arieh Y. Shalev, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel\ \ \ \ \ \ \ The Family Journal"An indispensable resource for counseling practitioners working with children and families in the contemporary culture....This book is one that could be read in full for the reader interested in learning more about child- and family-focused trauma practice as a whole or in chapters that relate to current needs and interests....I strongly recommend this book for family-based counseling practitioners as it will facilitate the integration of best practices of traumatology into their current and future work in a world that is unfortunately chronically threatened by terror. I also believe this text would serve as an excellent resource for a course, internship, or other curricular experience in family and child counseling."--The Family Journal\ \ \ Journal of Trauma Practice"A timely book....Practitioners who work with these victims will gain a great deal from the various treatment models presented as well as assistance with helping themselves deal with the stressful nature of their work."--Journal of Trauma Practice\ \ \ \ \ From The CriticsReviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CATSM(Abbott Laboratories)\ Description: This is a needed reference for helping children and their families following terrorism and other mass trauma situations.\ Purpose: The purpose of this book is to highlight the impact that traumatic stress can have on children and their families and discusses a framework for helping based upon current literature in the areas of stress and coping, trauma, bereavement, attachment, and risk and resilience. Additionally, this book helps to fulfill the unmet need of helping children cope with mass trauma and is due in part to 9/11 and our current state of affairs. Unquestionably, this book exceeds the author's objectives and is an important addition to the field.\ Audience: The book is intended mainly for practitioners within the mental health field who work with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma; graduate students in training would benefit as well. The author is a well-known member of the mental health field and is a recognized leading authority on play therapy.\ Features: The book is broken down into three areas: Part One discusses a theoretical framework for assessment and treatment, Part Two discusses helping interventions, and Part Three discusses living with traumatic memories and ongoing fears. The contributing authors do an excellent job of discussing how trauma affects children, how long-term grief support groups can be beneficial to families and children. Chapter 7 is a tremendously powerful chapter which highlights "The Kids' Place," a group support center for children which opened after the Oklahoma City Bombing Tragedy of 1995.\ Assessment: Undoubtedly, this reference will become a must-read for those who work with traumatized children and their families. It represents a comprehensive, timely, and a strong addition to the field of mental health.\ \ \ \ \ 4 Stars! from Doody\ \
