Children and Adolescent in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches

Abstract

Trauma in the formative years of life often leads to deleterious consequences. Effective treatment of traumatized children and adolescent is of paramount importance. A mental health professional must be equipped with special expertise to deal with this problem. To work with traumatized children and adolescent is difficult. It is often a team work incorporating different approaches. A professional in isolation will not be able to offer effective services to these group of people.When a traumatized child, feels that he has no control of a situation, he will predictably get more symptomatic. If a child is given some choice or some element of control in an activity or in an interaction, he will feel safer, comfortable and will be able to feel, think and act in a positive way. The book "Children and Adolescent in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic approaches" offers insight into this baffling subject.The editor of this book, Chris Nicholson, is a lecturer in the Centre for psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex. Nicholson has vast experience of working in a range of Children's service. Michael Erwin is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent. Kedar Nath Dwivedi is a visiting professor at the London Metropolitan University and Director of the International Institute of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Formerly he served as a consultant child psychiatrist at Northampton General Hospital. The contributors of this book also include psychotherapist, psychiatric nurse and manager of inpatient adolescent unit and art therapist. So, the vast experiences of these professionals working with traumatized children are put together in this comprehensive book.