Overview
- Strong attachment and body based theoretical validation for interventions
- Intervention strategies which can be utilized by professionals and caregivers
- Principles which can enhance therapeutic success
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This book outlines both the theory and application of regulation intervention strategies for children with complex trauma history. National statistics identify that 1:7 children in the United States are subjected to child abuse or neglect. The age group with the highest reported incidences are in the 1-3 year old age group. The primary perpetrators of this abuse are the child’s caregivers. This age is closely associated with the critical period of development in the areas of the brain, the child’s physiology and their social/emotional well being. When primary attachment is disrupted, delays and disruptions across many domains occur.
When the perpetrator of their trauma is the same person who should be ensuring their safety, a child develops behaviors in an attempt to make sense of their world. The behaviors serve a purpose. Behavioral approaches which rely on positive and negative consequences do not adequately address the cause of the behavior and are therefore ineffective. Other existing trauma interventions rely on the individual to cognitively process information. However, when dysregulated, retrieval of information from the frontal lobe of the brain is not physiologically possible. All these approaches also intervene on the assumption that the child knows what normal regulation feels like. Most of these children however have only known chaos and fear novelty. This attachment based intervention model incorporates neurological, physiological, observational and practical regulation intervention strategies for anyone working with children with complex trauma history. It is able to be applied in home, school, community and in therapy environments. When a child feels regulated and safe, the effectiveness of the child’s trauma treatment can be enhanced.Keywords
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Suellen Thomson-Link OTD has her doctorate in occupational therapy, is a registered dance/movement therapist and is the owner of her own clinic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complex Trauma Regulation in Children
Book Subtitle: A Body-Based Attachment Approach
Authors: Suellen Thomson-Link
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40320-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40319-4Published: 27 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40322-4Due: 27 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40320-0Published: 26 October 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 187
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychology, general, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, Occupational Therapy