Traumatic Experience and the Brain: A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized As Children

Traumatic Experience and the Brain is the result of Dr. Dave Ziegler's three decades of experience with children traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. This book details the effect of such trauma on the developing brain, describing how it actually rewires one's perceptions of self, others, and the world. It is a book of hope for foster, natural, and adoptive parents of such "broken" children and the therapists, teachers and social workers who attempt to help them. Dave Ziegler, M.S., Ph.D., is the director of Scar/Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment program in Oregon for some of society's most damaged children.

Dr. Dave Ziegler has seen, first-hand, the effects of traumatic experiences during infancy and early childhood on the brain. As a result of his research and extensive experience with traumatized children, he describes in understandable terms the complex neural functioning of a very young brain. His work with trauma victims has exposed the formation of triggers that are so resistant to change. His career is focused on ways to help traumatized individuals, and professionals who help them, learn new methods to heal deeply ingrained trauma. Dr. Ziegler is Executive Director of SCAR/Jasper Mountain, an organization based in Oregon that treats some of society's most damaged children.