Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
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Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt.
As experts on adoption and fostering who are adoptive parents themselves, Caroline Archer and Christine Gordon explain how this knowledge can help parents to better understand and care for their child. They explain why conventional parenting techniques are often not helpful for the child who has experienced early trauma and explore why therapeutic reparenting is the only way to help repair the unhealthy neurobiological and behavioural patterns which affect the child’s development. They do not shy away from how difficult reparenting is, acknowledging how hard it can be to recognise our own fallibility as parents and to change our own parenting patterns. The authors also offer hard-won advice on a range of common parenting flashpoints – from defusing arguments and aggression to negotiating bedtimes and breaks in routine, and making sure that special occasions are remembered for all the right reasons.
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts is a humane, no-nonsense survival guide for any parent caring for a child with developmental trauma or attachment difficulties, and will also provide information and insights for social workers, teachers, counsellors and other professionals involved in supporting adoptive and foster families.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Illustrated edition (15 Dec. 2012), Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 288 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1849052638 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1849052634 |
| Dimensions | 15.19 x 1.65 x 22.61 cm |
by Amazon Customer
Combines science of neurobiology with immensely practical and experience-based approaches to reparenting traumatised children. Both extremely challenging and very readable.
by Tim
Comprehensive and well written guide to how to help adopted children. Good practical advice on how to help children, based on evidence based research into brain development. Understanding why a child acts like they do help you to cope with their behaviour and work on improving it.
by Nina Phillips
I gave this book four stars because it explains in a clear and simplified way about the best way(in authors view) on how to help children from a traumatised/ unsettled background.
by jyothi
Such an informative book.
by Mrs Savage
Very Helpful
by Hadders
This is the kind of book that you need to underline key sentences and bookmark nearly every page. Great science behind the subject and some really good ideas to try. Have tried some on my autistic son and the traumatised children that I work with; I have had some pleasing results. It’s not a quick fix but the strategies have potential to change lives. I have talked about it so much at work that my colleagues are buying the book as well. Definitely recommend!
by Rachel
Bought for my wife who is involved in reparenting children and felt this might be a useful book to help make sense of some of the issues involved.
by AngelJ
As described