Product Description
The Child Trauma Handbook is a comprehensive plain-language guide to treatment of trauma-exposed children and adolescents and those with trauma or loss-related issues. This no-nonsense manual helps professionals understand experientially through exercises how and why kids' behaviors can be related to their history of trauma while teaching practical hands-on clinical skills and interventions. Informally presented and easy-to-read, the user-friendly text includes illustrative case studies, recommended reading lists, treatment regimes, discussion questions, useful handouts, exercises, and an annotated bibliography, all in an 8 1/2 X 11 inch format that pulls together all aspects of working with children to become a full-spectrum, empirically based, trauma-informed treatment model. Clinicians as well as paraprofessional workers such as case managers, probation officers, and foster parents will find this to be an essential.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)

Awesome

This book is a great guide when doing trauma work with children. I was very impressed.
August 24, 2007

Treating Trauma in Children & Teens Made Easy

This is one of the best books I've used when dealing with trauma and children or teens. It is a step by step menu to help therapists move from the beginning to the resolution. If this were just the content, the book far surpasses many resources in understanding, engaging, and treating children of all ages who have exprienced trauma. However, the additional information on engaging parents and school personel is excellent. It also presents wonderful case examples to support the content. And the sections that discuss the known treatment models for trauma are clear, concise, and give concrete examples. Ricky Greenwald has really excelled in this literary endeavor to provide therapists all over the world with knowledge and treatment suggestions to work with our most valuable resource - our children! I use this book on a regular basis to support, validate, and enhance my treatment of children. Thank you Ricky!
May 17, 2006

An intuitive and practical guide for working with traumatized children

Finally! A comprehensive framework that conceptualizes trauma treatment for children in a way that makes intuitive and practical sense.
Dr. Greenwald's Child Trauma Handbook strikes a new chord as it hits several critical points often missing in discussion of trauma treatment for children. He emphasizes the need for collaboration between therapist, caregivers and other professionals to establish and maintain safety and stability for the child. Dr. Greenwald describes a trauma-informed case formulation that provides an understanding of how important the trauma piece is for everyone involved and why it's important in changing a child's behavior. The importance of understanding and working with triggers is explained, as is identifying and planning for anticipated challenges.
Dr. Greenwald's book is straightforward, clear and concise. It is an invaluable tool both for the beginning therapist learning to work with traumatized children and the more seasoned professionals who have been looking for just this framework to enhance their practice.
Denise L. Houston, MA, LPC
March 09, 2006

A must read for all who work with children and youth!!

Ricky Greenwald has brilliantly illustrated a way for us to think about how to work with children & youth impacted by "trauma". The Child Trauma Handbook gives the reader "hands on" practice information that is grounded in evidence based practice strategies. I will this information to help me work more effectively in my clinical practice and in my classroom teaching!!
March 08, 2006

Superb model for understanding trauma!

This comprehensive model for conceptualizing the effects of trauma, designing a plan for intervention and explaining it to clients should be required reading for all students of psychotherapy.
December 18, 2005

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