Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolesc
Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolesc
ents: Practical Guidance and Ready-To-Use Resourcess
ISBN: 9781849059497Damion J. Grasso, PhD., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA. He has worked extensively in the area of early trauma exposure and child development, with research focusing on the assessment and treatment of trauma-related problems in children and adolescents.
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
By: By Damion J. Grasso
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 200
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Part I. Getting Started. 1. What is Trauma Work? 2. Evidence-Based Models. 3. How to Use this Workbook. 4. Making a Problem List and Monitoring Progress. Part II. Preparing Children for Trauma Work. 5. Enhancing Social and Personal Resources. 6. What is Trauma and How Does it Affect Us? 7. How Will Psychotherapy Help? 8. Regulating Intense Emotion from the Bottom Up. 9. Regulating Intense Emotion from the Top Down. 10. Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices. 11. Emotional Vocabulary and Awareness. 12. Tolerating Trauma Work. Part III. Trauma Work with the Child. 13. Starting the Trauma Work. 14. Indirect Therapeutic Exposure. 15. Low-Level Therapeutic Exposure. 16. High-Level Therapeutic Exposure. 17. Trauma Memory Processing. 18. In-Vivo Exposure. Part IV. Working with the Caregiver. 19. What Does the Caregiver Bring to the Table? 20. What is Trauma and How Does it Affect My Child? 21. How Will Psychotherapy Help My Child? 22. Bringing it Home. 23. Managing Difficult Behavior. 24. Engaging Families with Barriers to Treatment. 25. Additional Resources. Worksheets and Handouts.