Main description:

Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their caregivers.

The book offers a contemporary and comprehensive approach to working with traumatised children by integrating knowledge and skills from traditional psychodynamic child psychotherapy and more contemporary trauma-informed and mentalization-based frameworks. It advocates three tracks of work, involving direct work with the child, work with the child's primary caregivers and work with the network. The book is divided into two parts: Part I of the book covers the theoretical background and Part II discusses the core components and phases of the trauma-informed and mentalization-based treatment approach. The authors bring out the specific dynamics of the psychotherapeutic work through four composite cases woven through the book.

Written in accessible language this treatment guide is primarily aimed at psychodynamically trained psychotherapists, mental health professionals, and professional caregivers working with traumatised children.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

PART I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Chapter 1. A contemporary psychodynamic perspective on and approach to complex trauma

Chapter 2. Complex trauma and profound disruptions in four domains of child development

Chapter 3. Complex trauma and the challenge to mentalizing capacities in parents and the network

PART II. THE THREE-TRACK TREATMENT APPROACH

Chapter 4. The three-track treatment approach: core features and basic principles

Chapter 5. Assessment of 'child within family' development

Chapter 6. Direct work with the child

Chapter 7. Work with parents

Chapter 8. Work with the network

Chapter 9. Working towards ending