Imagination and Adolescent Trauma
Imagination and Adolescent Trauma

Author: Mary Caswell Walsh

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 179361833X

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Exploring the role of imagination in trauma recovery, the author shares the arresting dreams and stories of traumatized adolescents. Describing the impact of trauma on adolescent health and development, the author provides promising research into the use of breathing skills, HRV Biofeedback, and dream work to promote healthy breathing, emotion regulation, and restorative dreaming. Research suggests that these interventions can decrease post-traumatic distress and assist in the creation of meaningful posttraumatic narratives. The author explores the role of embodied imagination in adolescent spiritual development and posttraumatic growth. These interventions provide clinicians and pastoral caregivers with simple and effective ways of helping adolescents heal from trauma in holistic and dynamic ways that respect the integrated constitution of the human person.

Who You Were Before Trauma
Who You Were Before Trauma

Author: Luise Reddemann

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 161519617X

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From a pioneer in trauma therapy, a resource to help survivors develop a repertoire of positive strategies that combat the negative effects of trauma and PTSD

Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy

Author: Cathy A. Malchiodi

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2020-03-27

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1462543111

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"Psychological trauma can be a life-changing experience that affects multiple facets of health and well-being. The nature of trauma is to impact the mind and body in unpredictable and multidimensional ways. It can be a highly subjective that is difficult or even impossible to explain with words. It also can impact the body in highly individualized ways and result in complex symptoms that affect memory, social engagement, and quality of life. While many people overcome trauma with resilience and without long term effects, many do not. Trauma's impact often requires approaches that address the sensory-based experiences many survivors report. The expressive arts therapy-the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play-are largely non-verbal ways of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic. Based on current evidence-based and emerging brain-body practices, there are eight key reasons for including expressive arts in trauma intervention, covered in this book: (1) letting the senses tell the story; (2) self-soothing mind and body; (3) engaging the body; (4) enhancing nonverbal communication; (5) recovering self-efficacy; (6) rescripting the trauma story; (7) making meaning; and (8) restoring aliveness"--

Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children

Author: Cathy A. Malchiodi

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2008-01-08

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1606237853

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Rich with case material and artwork samples, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book especially practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences addressed include parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Broader approaches to promoting resilience and preventing posttraumatic problems in children at risk are also presented.

The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination
The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination

Author: Marjorie Taylor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0199909199

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Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy. However, there is growing appreciation for the role that imagination plays in cognitive and emotional development, as well as its link with children's understanding of the real world. With their imaginations, children mentally transcend time, place, and/or circumstance to think about what might have been, plan and anticipate the future, create fictional relationships and worlds, and consider alternatives to the actual experiences of their lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination provides a comprehensive overview of this broad new perspective by bringing together leading researchers whose findings are moving the study of imagination from the margins of mainstream psychology to a central role in current efforts to understand human thought. The topics covered include fantasy-reality distinctions, pretend play, magical thinking, narrative, anthropomorphism, counterfactual reasoning, mental time travel, creativity, paracosms, imaginary companions, imagination in non-human animals, the evolution of imagination, autism, dissociation, and the capacity to derive real life resilience from imaginative experiences. Many of the chapters include discussions of the educational, clinical, and legal implications of the research findings and special attention is given to suggestions for future research.

The Power of Your Child's Imagination
The Power of Your Child's Imagination

Author: Charlotte Reznick Ph.D.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1101108665

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Imagine your frustrated four-year-old calming her own anger with a few simple breaths. Picture your fourth grader visualizing an ice blue pillow to cool his hot headaches. Or your worried eleven-year-old improving her concentration by consulting a personal wizard to help with homework. The Power of Your Child's Imagination will show you how to empower your child with easy, effective, and creative skills for surviving-and thriving-in a stressful world. This indispensable guide provides nine simple tools to help children cope with stress and anxiety by tapping into their imagination to access their own natural strength and confidence. Dr. Reznick illustrates how each tool can be used every day to deal with problems such as: * Stress-induced headaches and stomachaches * Phobias, panic attacks, and social anxiety * Bed-wetting and sleepless nights * Separation anxiety and fear of the unknown * Coping with death, divorce, and other losses * Hurt, frustration, and anger * Trouble with schoolwork and concentration * Sibling rivalry and school-yard squabbles

Trauma-informed Practices with Children and Adolescents
Trauma-informed Practices with Children and Adolescents

Author: William Steele

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0415890527

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This is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques.

Prophetic Imagination and the Neurophysiology of Trauma in Traumatized Adolescents
Prophetic Imagination and the Neurophysiology of Trauma in Traumatized Adolescents

Author: Mary Caswell Walsh

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on Walter Brueggeman's (2001) theology of prophetic imagination, Abraham Heschel's (2001) reflections on prophetic tradition, and Louis Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim's (2010) insights into prophetic literature as survival literature, this thesis uses the lens of prophetic imagination to examine research into the disintegratice impact of trauma and the possible role of imagination in recovery from trauma on multiple levels of human experience (neuro-physiological, psychological, sociological and transcendent). Bringing the science of traumatology into conversation with the theology of prophetic imagination, the mixed methods component of this thesis, uses both qualitative and quantitative measures to investigate the inter-relationship of physiological and psychological measures of coherence, the creation of coherent, meaningful narratives and the development of symbolozing capacity (examined through content analysis of dreams and case studies) in traumatized adolescents. Results of this study suggest that increased physiological coherence (measured using the Hearmath Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Protocal) and participation in Dream Group correlate with changes in dream content (analyzed using DreamSAT and SDDb Word search quantitative measures) and development of symbolizing capacity in this population. Study results provide evidence that dreaming and patterns in dreams are relevant to trauma recovery in adolescents. Study limitations and implications for ministry are discussed.

Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers
Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers

Author: Atle Dyregrov

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0857003917

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Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers is an accessible, comprehensive book providing an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and how they can be supported following trauma. Trauma can result from a range of experiences from bullying to witnessing violence to living through war. This book explores the different reactions children may experience, and the impact trauma can have. Variables affecting the impact of trauma are explored such as different developmental stages, gender, the reactions of friends and parents, the child's personality, and their caring environment. Appropriate and effective ways of helping children after a traumatic event are outlined, and different types of therapy, such as group therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, are discussed. The book offers case examples and practical tips throughout, and includes a chapter on how someone working with a traumatized child can help and look after themselves. This book will be invaluable to a range of professionals working with traumatized children including counsellors, child and family social workers and therapists, as well as others involved with traumatized children such as foster carers and teachers.