A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle

The Circle of Safety and Reconnection is a compassionate reflection model for working with vulnerable and traumatised children and young people, providing hope for post-traumatic healing and growth. It offers a holistic and comprehensive framework for professionals to create safety, assess risk and protection factors, and use tools to regulate the nervous system and promote healing. It also discusses the nature, signs, ways, and reasons of trauma, and the different ways of healing these wounds outside the therapeutic context. Additionally, it focuses on building resilience in professionals to prevent secondary traumatisation, stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 220 pages
Publication date: 21 June 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Circle of Safety and Reconnection is a compassionate reflection model for working with vulnerable and traumatised children and young people in a nurturing way, providing hope for post-traumatic healing and growth. It is a holistic and comprehensive framework that considers a child's individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma, as well as their risk and protection factors. The book provides a step-by-step guide with practice examples and exercises to help the reader use and adapt the model in practice. It discusses the nature, signs, ways, and reasons of trauma, as well as the different ways of healing these wounds outside the therapeutic context. Additionally, the author dedicates a chapter to building resilience in professionals, as this field is high-risk for secondary traumatisation, stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue. This text is written for all professionals working in the field, including therapists and psychologists, social workers, educators, foster parents, nurses, day care workers, and students.

Weight: 352g
Dimension: 233 x 155 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032345345