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Explore interventions and treatment methods designed to help curb the alarming trend toward violence in today's youth! Written in jargon-free lucid prose, Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children specifically shows how positive early experiences enhance brain development and how traumatic life experiences, especially child abuse and... Read more

Explore interventions and treatment methods designed to help curb the alarming trend toward violence in today's youth!

Written in jargon-free lucid prose, Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children specifically shows how positive early experiences enhance brain development and how traumatic life experiences, especially child abuse and neglect, can affect a child's brain and behavior. Through carefully selected case studies, the book offers basic principles of treatment and a broad range of interventions that target the multiple symptoms and problems seen in children with a history of childhood trauma.

Offering a new psychobiological model of child development, this book incorporates the influence of both genes and the environment and conceptualizes normal and pathological development in terms of common underlying processes. For readers concerned with promoting healthy development in children and helping children recover from childhood trauma, this engagingly written book describes exactly how a child's social/interpersonal environment can positively or negatively influence brain development.

Throughout the book, the authors highlight the interrelationship between neurobiology and psychology. They present basic information about brain development and organization, describe exactly what is going on inside the brain at each stage of development, and illustrate these concepts through a detailed case study of a preschooler with severe problems in communicating and relating. They discuss the pernicious effects that traumatic stress has on brain and behavior, differentiating between simple and complex PTSD, and review the specific brain impairments currently attributed to a childhood history of maltreatment. Using their unique psychobiological perspective and illustrative case studies, the authors evaluate the principles and strategies of treatment, showing how relationships and experiences can mitigate the effects childhood trauma. After fleshing out the shocking cost to society of child maltreatment, the authors offer broad policy prescriptions that promote healthy development, including basic strategies for prevention and early intervention.

Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children will show you:

how interpersonal experience shapes brain development
what is going on in the brain during the critical first six years
how therapeutic relationships and interpersonal experience can promote emotional and cognitive development
how childhood maltreatment can damage the brain and impair the developing mind
what types of experiences and therapeutic strategies can mitigate the effects of childhood trauma
what policy prescriptions, programs, and early intervention strategies can be implemented to promote healthy development

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Overview of the New Neurobiology
Organization of This Book
Chapter 1. Brain Growth and Organization
How the Brain Grows
How the Brain Organizes
Chapter 2. Birth to Five: Factoring in Biology
Interaction, Brain Maturation, and the Stages of Development
Conclusion
Appendix: Charting Your Baby’s Emotional Milestones
Chapter 3. PTSD: Biology Impinging on Behavior
Identifying PTSD in Children
The Two Types of PTSD
The Psychobiology of PTSD
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Complex PTSD in Children: Brain and Behavior
Child Maltreatment: The Scope of the Problem
Complex PTSD: A Psychobiological Syndrome
Brain Impairments Associated with Complex PTSD
The Effects of Maltreatment on a Child’s Psyche
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Healing the Brain: An Interactive Approach to Treating PTSD and Complex PTSD in Children
Therapeutic Goals: An Overview
Demystifying the Therapy Process
Stage One: Safety and Stabilization
Stage Two: Symptom Reduction and Memory Work
Stage Three: Developmental Skills
Adjuncts to Therapy: Reconnecting to the Body
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Complex PTSD Compounded by Attachment Problems: Billy’s Story
Children in the Child Welfare System
Introducing Billy
Analysis
Treatment
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Early Experience and Psychobiology: Translating Scientific Advances into Policy Prescriptions
The Two Approaches: White House Conferences I and II
The Underlying Sociological Ills
What’s Been Working So Far: Interventions to Build On
Principles for the Future
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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Authored by Stien, Phyllis; Kendall, Joshua C

Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children

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