Description
Book SynopsisAll families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to trust.
Sarah Naish shares her own experiences of adopting five siblings. She describes how to use therapeutic parenting - a deeply nurturing parenting style - to overcome common challenges when raising children who have experienced trauma. The book describes a series of difficult episodes for her family, exploring both parent's and child's experiences of the same events - with the child's experience written by a former fostered child - and in doing so reveals the very good reasons why traumatized children behave as they do. The book explores the misunderstandings that grow between parents and their children, and provides comfort to the reader - you are not the only family going through this!
Full of insights from a family and others who have really been there, this book gives you advice and strategies to help you and your family thrive.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
The Trauma Difference (Room 1)
1. Before
2. Expectations
3. Meeting
4. Moving In
5. Honeymooon
6. Change
7. Christmas
8. The Honeymoon Is Over
9. Emotional Age
10. Stuck
11. Food
12. Sugar
13. Easter
14. Birthday
15. The Necessary Lies?
16. Nonsense Chatter
17. Anxiety
18. Wee & Poo
19. Hypervigilance
20. Exhausted (Compassion Fatigue)
21. No Friends
22. More Than One!
23. Straight Talk Please
24. Dogs
25. Mess
26. Blame
27. Diagnoses
28. Sabotage
29. What Lies Beneath (The Internal Working Model)
30. Memory
31. Lying
32. Hypochondria
33. Shame
34. Visits (Contact)
35. Violent
36. School
37. Isolation
38. Guilt
39. Therapy
40. Busy
41. Sleep
42. Honesty
43. Avoiding Connection
44. Who Cares?
45. Stealing
46. Rude
47. Grief
48. Moving On
49. Hope
50. Our Family
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