Verbal First Aid: Help Your Kids Heal from Fear and Pain--and Come Out Strong

Words as Medicine
What to say to your children to get them through the bumps, bruises, and crises of childhood.

Falling off a bike, having a bad dream, getting stitches...sometimes a kiss isn't enough to make it all better. But what you say to your child in those first moments of pain or fear could make all the difference.

Using techniques the authors have taught to doctors, nurses, and first responders, Verbal First Aid(tm) explains how words can be used to promote healing from burns, bruises, nightmares, asthma attacks, and more. It provides scripts and tips on how to short-circuit traumatic memories, sometimes just by speaking a sentence or two.

This revolutionary book gives parents the responses they need to immediately stabilize their children's emotions. And these methods will build a foundation of confidence and inner strength that will help kids heal at the deepest level, and weather whatever hardships and difficulties they encounter throughout life.

Judith Simon Prager, PhD, CHT, is a teacher, author, and psychologist specializing in trauma release. She has trained first responders around the world in the use of Verbal First Aid and currently runs a private practice in trauma and hypnosis in Los Angeles.

Judith A. Acosta, LISW, CHT, is a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, crisis counselor, and author. A trained homeopath, she works with law enforcement and families to treat trauma, anxiety, depression, and grief. She is the coauthor, with Judith Simon Prager, of Verbal First Aid and The Worst Is Over. She lives in Placitas, New Mexico.