The Trauma and Attachment-Aware Classroom: A Practical Guide to Supporting Children Who Have Encountered Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Trauma can have a significant impact on the stability of a child’s development and can put additional pressures on the education staff working with them.
Showing you how you can best support children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences, this guide is full of practical guidance on how you can adapt your teaching with this group.
Covering a range of issues a child may have, such as foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, pathological demand avoidance, attachment difficulties and many more, this book provides the trauma-informed tools you need to care for these children and to give the best possible opportunities from their education.
It also addresses the difference children may experience in learning, how they behave, how teachers can ensure home–school cooperation, and how teachers can act in a trauma-informed manner.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers (19 Sept. 2019) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 200 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 178592558X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1785925580 |
| Dimensions | 15.2 x 1.17 x 22.9 cm |
by J. Wright
Quite possibly the best thing I have bought this year.
Easy to read, good expert advice and practical ideas on how to support/help. Set out to explain in bite sized chunks – what, why, what that might look like, how to approach and things that might work. Cannot recommend highly enough. Every school/teacher/childcare worker needs to read this. Wish I had had it years ago.
by Simon Armstead
As an adoptive parent, this is the book I wished I had when our children first came to live with us. This fantastic book is packed full of practical information for both classroom teachers and parents alike. Very easy to read and “dip” into. Extremely good for adoptive parents that want to build a strong home to school relationship with their child’s school (both primary and secondary). I know for many adoptive parents, schools are a cause of high anxiety. This book will give you the confidence and knowledge to support your child’s school to become “adoption friendly”. There are lots of real life examples of approaches to try from schools in the UK that are already “trauma and attachment aware”. I have already bought a second copy; one for me and one I am donating to my children’s school inclusion team!
by ccoa
A really helpful book with practical ideas about how schools can used trauma informed practice to support young people. Accessible and easy to read.
by Debbie A
Firstly I’ll be clear that I read as much as I possibly could in 3 hours before passing it on to my child’s teacher – with a post-it of key sections I urged her to read. Despite not yet being able to read it cover to cover, I found it so useful. As a mum of an adopted son who has had an unexpected crisis on starting school, this book has been so helpful in giving ideas and backing up what I am telling school – who seem to have no real knowledge. The evidence base in the book is brilliant and the examples of common school approaches (eg the dreaded behaviour chart of shame on the class wall) and their impact on children with trauma or attachment issues – together with effective alternatives – should help schools who take on board the information and are sufficiently confident to make changes – to do just that.
It should be on every teacher’s bookshelf – looking a little tired from repeated reading. More importantly, it should be brought to life in the classroom. Thank you for a much needed and inspiring book.
by Teresa Bowen
All as expected – good
by Dearbhail MacMahon
Very informative in a nice easy to teach format for young people
by Sarah H
I’ve bought this book as an adoptive parent to try and help equip myself and my son’s teacher best help him in school. It’s got plenty of important reminders of the effect early years trauma has on a child’s development and what that can look like in outward behaviour. Lots of suggestions of what triggers can come up in a school environment and how to potentially recognise them and help the affected child navigate their big emotions. Would love every teacher to read this, and many adoptive parents like me will also find it helpful to help you work with your child and advocate for them.
by Angela McCarthy
This book is a great read. It covers everything that schools should learn about how to deal with children who have suffered trauma and have attachment difficulties. The best thing is that Rebecca Brooks was a teacher and is an adoptive parent so she ‘sees’ both sides and writes in a simplistic way so schools are able to implement ways to help children with these hidden disabilities.
I bought two copies and donated one to my daughter’s school. I just hope they make it part of their staff’s CPD training.