Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People: An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice
Book Details
- Publisher : Jessica Kingsley
- Published : 2012
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 256
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 32273
- ISBN 13 : 9781849052559
- ISBN 10 : 1849052557
Also by Patrick Tomlinson
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Children in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs. This book provides a model of care for traumatized children, based on theory and practice experience pioneered at the Lighthouse Foundation, Australia. The authors explain the impact of trauma on child development, drawing on psychodynamic, attachment and neurobiological trauma theories. The practical aspects of undertaking therapeutic care are then outlined, covering everything from forming therapeutic relationships to the importance of the home environment and daily routines. This book considers the totality of the childs experience at the individual, group, organization and community levels and argues that attention to all of these is essential if the child is to achieve wellness. Case material from both children and carers are used throughout to illustrate both the impact of trauma and how children have been helped to recovery through therapeutic care. This book will provide anyone caring for traumatized children in a residential setting with both the understanding and the practical knowledge to help children recover. It will be essential reading for managers and decision-makers responsible for looked after children, child care workers such as residential and foster carers, youth workers, social workers, mental health workers and child welfare academics.
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