Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches

✍ Scribed by Chris Nicholson, Michael Irwin, Kedar Nath Dwivedi

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development. They discuss the impact of abuse and mistreatment upon the mental health of 'looked after' children, drawing links between psychoanalytic theory and practice and the study of literature and the arts. This indispensable book provides useful insights and a fresh perspective for anyone working with traumatized children and adolescents, including social workers, psychotherapists, arts therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, psychologists and students in these fields. "Community, Culture and Change" encompasses a wide range of ideas and theoretical models related to communities and cultures as a whole, embracing key Therapeutic Community concepts such as collective responsibility, citizenship and empowerment, as well as multidisciplinary ways of working and the social origins of distress. The ways in which our social and therapeutic worlds are changing are illustrated by the innovative and creative work described in these books.

✦ Table of Contents

Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches......Page 4
FOREWORD......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
Part I Trauma......Page 28
1 Approaching Trauma......Page 30
2 No More Ghosts: The Exorcism of Traumatic
Memory in Children and Adolescents......Page 42
3 Making Sense of Marnie: Neurology, Film and Trauma......Page 64
4 Art, Science and Innovation in the Treatment
of Early Trauma......Page 80
Part II Story......Page 100
5 Early Trauma and The Velveteen Rabbit or How
Children Become Real: Long-Term Prognosis
and Therapeutic Intervention......Page 102
6 The Therapeutic Use of Stories......Page 116
Part III Self-Harm......Page 130
7 The ‘Rights’ of Passage: Initiation Rites
and Self-Harm in Adolescents......Page 132
8 Creating the Self through Self-Harm......Page 146
Part IV Art Therapy......Page 160
9 Melting Muddy Mixtures: An Exploration of the Art
Psychotherapy Process with an Adolescent Boy
in a Therapeutic Community......Page 162
10 Being Speechless: Art Therapy with
Self-Harming Adolescents......Page 181
Part V Violence......Page 198
11 From Reaction to Reflection: Childhood Violence:
Roots and Resolution......Page 200
12 Dear Little Monsters: Attachment, Adolescence
and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 236
13 When the Crying Stops......Page 238
THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 244
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 246
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 250