The effects of trauma and abuse on children can be long-lasting, acute and damaging. Evidence suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a highly effective form of psychotherapy to help children to overcome these effects. This book uses an evidence-based CBT treatment model to assist children and adolescents aged 9-15 years to resolve trauma symptoms and increase their coping skills. The approach is made up of 16 step-by-step sessions to carry out with the young person, and includes worksheets and fun activities using arts and crafts. The model uses four phases: strengthening the child's psychosocial context; enhancing their coping skills; processing their trauma through gradual exposure; and, addressing special issues that the child may have and preventing relapse. The child keeps a scrapbook for the duration of the programme in which they keep worksheets, artwork and any other activities they carry out. The approach is designed for individual therapy but also includes sessions for parents and caregivers. With photocopiable worksheets and easy to follow sessions, this will be an invaluable resource for all practitioners working with traumatized and abused children, including therapists, psychologists, counsellors, health professionals and social workers.

Author: Jacqueline S. Feather, Kevin R. Ronan
Paperback: 139 pages
Company: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2010-06)
ISBN: 1849050864
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The first fifteen years of your life, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, you have developed the skills to behave in a specific environment: the family system. And so, if in your everyday family life, you've developed the skills to be unlovable, unhappy, unsuccessful and unworthy, you were abused as a child, and your parents trained you to be depressed, to live in fear, shame or guilt, and perhaps to be self-destructive. This book is a therapeutic guide that will lead you along the road to recovery. Your true personality will emerge with the exercises, and you will be free to fulfill your own destiny the way you want it to be.

Author: Robert Hoc
Paperback: 196 pages
Company: WingSpan Press (2006-05-10)
ISBN: 1595940545
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A history of a childhood abuse is not a life sentence. Here is hope, healing, and a chance to recover the self lost in childhood. Drawing on his extensive work with Adult Children, and on his own experience as a survivor of emotional neglect, therapist Steven Farmer demonstrates that through exercises and journal work, his program can help lead you through grieving your lost childhood, to become your own parent, and integrate the healing aspects of spiritual, physical, and emotional recovery into your adult life.

Author: Steven Farmer
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Ballantine Books (1990-04-14) (1990-04-14)
ISBN: 0345363884
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Author: Harvey L. Schwartz
Hardcover: 432 pages
Company: Basic Books (2000-11-10)
ISBN: 0465095739
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In recent years, major progress has been made in combating child abuse. Between 1963 and 1999, the number of children reported as suspected victims of child abuse and neglect rose from about 150,000 children to more than 3 million children, a 20-fold increase. Although some of this increase reflects an increase in the amount of child maltreatment in our society, most experts believe that the vast bulk of additional reports is the result of better identification on the part of professionals and laypersons.

As a result, many thousands of children have been saved from death and serious injury. The best estimate is that child abuse and neglect deaths fell from over 3,000 a year (and perhaps as many as 5,000) in the late 1960s to about 1,200 a year in the late 1990s.

Yet, many children continue to fall through the cracks. According to federal government studies, professionals such as physicians, teachers, and day care personnel still fail to report large numbers of the maltreated children they see.

Simply generating more and more reports, however, is not the answer. In recent years, the problem of nonreporting has been compounded by the problem of inappropriate reporting. In 1998, about 65 percent of all reports were labeled "unfounded" after being investigated. (This is in sharp contrast to 1975, when the comparable figure was about 35 percent.) Although rules, procedures, and even terminology vary (some states use the phrase "unfounded", others "unsubstantiated" or "not indicated"), in essence, an "unfounded" report is one that is dismissed after an investigation finds insufficient evidence upon which to proceed.

Some professionals defend the high level of unfounded reports as the necessary price for identifying endangered children. However, the determination that a report is unfounded can be made only after what is often a traumatic investigation and, inherently, a breach of parental and family privacy.

Author: Douglas J. Besharov
Paperback: 270 pages ISBN13: 9780029030820, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Free Press (1990-10-01) (1990-10-01)
ISBN: 002903082X
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Childhood Denied: Ending the Nightmare of Child Abuse and Neglect is an exposé of how America ignores and often discards its most vulnerable children. Delving into the political, legal, and social factors of children at risk for abuse and neglect, it chronicles the plight of abused children across the nation and provides a "report card" for each U.S. state. With a practical, journalistic, and social scientific approach, this fervent book emboldens child welfare professionals, government representatives, lawmakers, child attorneys, law enforcers, and the general public to respond more effectively and consistently to the needs of children at risk.



Author: Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Christopher T. Noblet
Paperback: 256 pages
Company: Sage Publications, Inc (2008-12-31)
ISBN: 1412939771
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How to know when children have been sexually abused poses special challenges. Some children make direct and clear statements, while others are more indirect in what they say. It is easy to attribute other meanings to their words.

Still other children show the effects of their abuse through behaviors, which can be sexualized, but not necessarily. Children may also be withdrawn, moody, aggressive, restless, and anxious. Finally some children show no obvious signs at all.


Author: Jane F. Gilgun Ph.D.LICSW
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Company: Jane Gilgun Books (2009-03-06) (2009-03-06)
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Author: Bernadine J. Ensink
Paperback: 242 pages
Company: Paul & Co Pub Consortium (1992-08)
ISBN: 9053830855
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How is an individual to lead a comfortable, productive existence when he or she was never taught the skills necessary for effective living? Adult survivors of child abuse often face this dilemma. Instead of being nurtured as children and taught life-skills by their caregivers, child abuse survivors were subjected to a daily regimen of coercive control, contempt, rejection and emotional unresponsiveness. It is not surprising, therefore, that many survivors encounter difficulty adjusting from this type of damaging childhood atmosphere to one in which they have autonomy. This book addresses the particular problems associated with treating adult survivors of child abuse. Until now, psychotherapy for child abuse survivors often centered on the trauma of their abuse experiences. However, survivors frequently reveal a history suggesting it was not abuse trauma alone that created their difficulties, but growing up essentially alone - without the consistent emotional support and guidance needed for development of effective functioning. This book presents an alternative to trauma-focused treatment that, though effective for treatment of other forms of trauma, can induce deteriorated rather than improved functioning in survivors of prolonged childhood maltreatment. The contextual therapy presented in Not Trauma Alone delineates a psychotherapeutic approach that emphasizes helping survivors develop the capacities for effective functioning that were never transmitted to them during their formative years. Detailed descriptions of the methods and interventions comprising contextual therapy are included in this critical book for all mental health professionals, clinicians, academics, and students in the field.

Author: Steven Gold
Hardcover: 302 pages
Company: Routledge (2000-06-21)
ISBN: 1583910271
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Written to help frontline practitioners assess and manage cases with children aged 18 months to six years who present allegations of child abuse, this book provides concrete and easily understood information about basic child development, interview procedures, and case management theory. Extensive experience is integrated with the research literature to provide:

an overview of child development information as it applies to interviewing young children a protocol for assessment of preverbal children that is grounded in theory and research a format for assessment of children aged three to five a review of the strengths and weaknesses of some current interview formats a technique for structured interviewing

Author: Sandra K. Hewitt
Paperback: 320 pages
Company: Sage Publications, Inc (1998-11-03)
ISBN: 0761902058
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