Parenting Matters: Parenting a child who has experienced trauma
£9.95
Many children become looked after because they have experienced very difficult and painful experiences in their young lives that have a lasting impact on their lives. This guide explores traumatic experiences and their effects on children at different stages of development.
The first half of the guide provides expert knowledge coupled with facts, figures and guidance presented in a straightforward and accessible style. It examines what constitutes trauma in childhood, including symptoms, prognosis and treatment. It outlines parenting tasks, addresses specific educational and social issues and answers a range of frequently answered questions.
In the second half, an adopter describes what it is like to parent children who have experienced significant trauma and how this affected, and continues to affect, day-to-day family life.
This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children.
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Reviews
As a foster carer who has looked after quite a few traumatised children, I wish I would have had access to this book ten years ago. The compact nature of the book coupled with the format serves to deliver a clear and true picture of the realities of caring for children who have suffered trauma. Overall, this book should prove valuable and compact enough to access in the, often small, pockets of time that carers get to themselves. I will be recommending this to my carers and will endeavour to complete the collection of eleven Parenting Maters books currently available.
Colin Chatten, National Carer Representative, Foster Care Associates, Rees Centre Newsletter
I am a therapist specialising in attachment difficulties. I use this book with my parents and would recommend it to anyone who works in this field.
Thomas Garnham, five stars, Amazon.co.uk