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Children and young people 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 and young people, 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. The book considers the
totality of the child's 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 and young people 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.
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can
help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for
measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book
describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided
by an integrated multi-disciplinary team. Particular themes
addressed include the conflict between the child's chronological
and emotional ages, the need to work at the child's pace, the
importance of the whole-team approach, and the challenges involved
in measuring progress. The authors describe clearly defined
outcomes for recovery, how children are assessed and how recovery
plans are made, and show how progress can be closely monitored and
responded to through the continuing process of assessment. An
in-depth case study is used to show how this works in practice.
This book forms part of an integrated approach and is an ideal
accompaniment to existing titles in the SACCS `Delivering Recovery'
series.
This book gives extensive coverage to work by staff at the Cotswold
Community, a therapeutic community of working with the
psychodynamic principle, from 1994 to 2000. It Covers every aspect
of the therapeutic way of working in great detail and gives good
examples of practice and theory. It also lays out the principles
that underpin way of working within a therapeutic environment.' -
Children Now 'Trauma for many, is a fact of life. But is the right
kind of human environment, so too is recovery.' - Attributed to
Paul van Heeswyck from the foreword 'The text draw on the author's
experience and wealth of material from staff discussions. The
therapeutic framework is applied to this client group and
integrated into all aspects of their care. The additional material
on child-adult, staff-dynamics, supervision and management, will be
of great interest to a wide range of residential staff, social
workers, foster carers, therapists and educationalists caring for
or working with emotionally needy children and young people.' -
Community Care Based on work carried out by staff at the Cotswold
Community over a number of years, Therapeutic Approaches in Work
with Traumatized Children and Young People provides a clear and
comprehensive link between theory and practice. The author shows
how practice in residential child care, fostering and other areas
of work with children can be developed in a way that is thoughtful
and underpinned by a sound theoretical base. Meeting weekly to
discuss and review their therapeutic practice in the light of
relevant theoretical approaches, the staff at the Cotswold
Community produced an invaluable record of working with emotionally
traumatized children. The result, brought together here by Patrick
Tomlinson, is an in-depth account of a "thinking culture" which
provides continual opportunities to respond to children's needs in
innovative ways - these include useful suggestions on a range of
key issues including education and play, primary provision,
sexuality and aggression.
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