Book Description

A trusted, comprehensive resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music, movement, and drama therapy, as well as bibliotherapy, describe step-by-step strategies for working with children, families, and groups. Rich with case material and artwork, the book is both practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences discussed include parental loss, child abuse, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma.

New to This Edition

Updated and expanded discussions of trauma and of the neurobiological basis for creative interventions.

Chapters on art therapy and EMDR, body maps and dissociation, sandtray play, resiliency-based movement therapy, work with clay, mindfulness, and stress reduction with music therapy.

Highlights important developments in knowledge about self-regulation, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.

This e-book edition

features 65 full-color illustrations. (Illustrations will appear in black and white on black-and-white e-readers).