This expert guide provides 50 essential tools and activities to use in practice with children and young people who have experienced trauma.

From bubbles, balloons, and blocks to ghosts, monsters, and squiggles, this book offers a wealth of activities that help children to express their feelings and experiences while feeling safe and supported. Case studies demonstrate how each activity can be easily incorporated into daily interactions during social work practice, and clear explanations of the theory provide context for how they work.

Developed from decades of hands-on experience supporting children after trauma, this book demonstrates ways to sensitively discuss children's histories. This can lead into discussing the way their experiences influence their behaviour, and help them to form healthy attachments for the future.

A key resource for all those who work or have contact with children, full of clearly explained activities to help with communication, assessments and difficult conversations.

About the Author
Richard Rose (Author)
Richard Rose is the Director of Therapeutic Life Story Work International (TLSWi) https://tlswi.com/about-tlswi/ which provides consultancy and training on Therapeutic Life Story Work and working with 'hard to reach' children and adolescents. Richard has worked with traumatised children and families since he was 17 years old, qualifying as a social worker in 1989. Richard is a regular visitor to Australia where he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University, Melbourne and Honorary Associate of Berry Street, Melbourne. He is also an Honorary Associate of the Open Adoption Institute, University of Sydney. He is a regular visitor to the USA, where he presents for Portland State University, DHS Oregon and ORPARC (Adoption Services).



Reviews
What an incredibly rich resource, filled with practice wisdom, illustrative case vignettes and diverse, creative direct work tools - all grounded in a solid research base. With a strong emphasis on playfulness in work with traumatised children, I can easily imagine myself regularly dipping in and out of this book. -- Katie Wrench, author of Skills and Knowledge for Life Story Work with Children and Adolescents
What an exquisite array! There has never been a more beautifully compiled nor lovingly collected "eclectic cupboard" to support trauma survivors. Rose has spent decades traveling the world, cultivating and gathering this unprecedented creative collection designed to help us connect with our young people. Readers will be dazzled with the scope and depth of the tools available to help clients reclaim and reshape their rightful stories. Your practice will never be the same! -- Kendra Morris Jacobson



Book Information
ISBN 9781805012900
Author Richard Rose
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers