Real Life Heroes: Practitioner's Manual - Softcover

Richard Kagan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789029529 ISBN 13: 9780789029522

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Real Life Heroes: Practitioner Manual is an organized and easy-to-use reference for busy practitioners who provide therapy to children with traumatic stress. This handy step-by-step guide is an accompanying text to the workbook for children called Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition, and Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect (both from Haworth), and provides professionals with structured tools for helping children to reintegrate painful memories and to foster healing from traumatic experiences.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Kagan, PhD, is Director of Psychological Services for Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York, and formerly Clinical Director/Principal Investigator for Parsons Child Trauma Study Center, a community services site for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is the author and co-author of six books about child and family services, Families in Perpetual Crisis with Shirley Schlosberg; Turmoil to Turning Points: Building Hope for Children in Crisis Placements; Wounded Angels: Lessons from Children in Crisis; Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect; Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children; and Real Life Heroes: Practitioner Manual. He has also published over twenty articles, chapters, and papers on practice and research issues in trauma therapy, child welfare, foster care, adoption, professional development, program evaluation, and quality improvement in family service agencies. Dr. Kagan has worked as a consulting psychologist for county departments of social services, and several child and family service agencies. Professional honors include two awards for distinguished achievement in child and family services. Dr. Kagan has been a workshop leader and keynote speaker at national and international conferences sponsored by family service agencies in the United States and Canada, and at state and regional conferences of trauma therapy, family violence, and home-based family service associations. His presentations, articles, and books highlight practical and innovative approaches that practitioners can utilize to help traumatized children and families.

Review

A REAL LIFESAVER for therapists searching to find helpful techniques to work with children who have experienced multiple traumas. Expressive, multi-sensory, creative methods are utilized to help children express feelings about their past traumatic experiences. The hero concept helps youth to visualize their strengths and to think in terms of future success. The Making Things Better chapter provides helpful strategies to help children regulate their feelings. The ABC's of Trauma and the Hero's Challenge helps children to look at the beliefs and actions that are keeping them stuck and actions they can take to feel successful. THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY THERAPIST OR PSYCHOLOGIST WHO WORKS WITH TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN -- Arlene Fisher, MA, LPC, LMFT, Director, Child Welfare Services, DePelchin Children's Center

AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE AND SUPPLEMENT. . . . The manual steps beyond a simple expansion on the exercises contained within the workbook, offering information . . . and trouble-shooting, with a recognition of the real-world dilemmas often facing clinicians working with this complicated population -- Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD, Director of Training and Education, The Trauma Center at JRI

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0789029529
• ISBN 13: 9780789029522
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220