Treating Complex Trauma in Children and Their Families - An Integrative Approach - Grand Format

Providing specific, in-depth individual, group, and family therapy interventions, this practical guide focuses on the treatment of 6- to 12-year-old children and their relevant family members. With their evidence-based Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Children (ITCT-C) model, the authors address the use of play therapy, multitargeted titrated exposure, mindfulness training, affect regulation skills development, and attachment processing, as well as interventions with family/caretaker and community systems.
A culturally sensitive and empowering perspective addresses the effects of social marginalization and supports recovery and posttraumatic growth. Key Features : -The book's muiticomponent, assessment-based approach helps the clinician identify the specific needs of each client and apply individualized treatment interventions ; A distinctive chapter on supervision and therapist self-care provides guidelines and information regarding supervision, management of countertransference, and strategies for self-care.
; The book directly addresses the concerns of socially marginalized children, as well as less deprived clients and their families, reflecting the book's philosophical inclusion of social and cultural issues in trauma treatment.