The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What It Is and How to Help

• What is trauma?
• How does it affect children?
• How can adults help?

Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child's emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome strategies to aid recovery. Reassuring advice will also rejuvenate adults' abilities to face the challenges of supporting children.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding trauma.
2. The impact of trauma.
3. Helping a child become calm.
4. Frustrating behaviour from traumatised children.
5. Key approaches to help children recover.
6. Important things to consider when offering support.
7. Getting your head around different therapies.

"In this accessible, enlightening little book, Betsy de Thierry recognises both the need to advocate for young people who have experienced trauma and to resource the adults in homes and schools who care for them. Emphasising the need for compassionate, relational responses to these often misunderstood young people, Betsy offers an array of practical strategies and insights to enable those responses, whilst conveying her core subject with confidence and clarity. An important, generous and timely publication."
- Louise Michelle Bomber, Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher & Therapist