Creative interventions with traumatized children

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neurobiology, creative interventions, and childhood trauma / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Ethics, evidence, trauma-informed practice, and cultural sensitivity / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Art therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized children / Madoka Takada Urhausen -- Music and grief work with children and adolescents / Russell E. Hilliard -- Art therapy as an intervention for mass violence / Laura V. Loumeau-May, Ellie Nicol Seibel, Mary Pellicci-Hamilton & Cathy Malchiodi -- Treating dissociation in traumatized children with body maps / Bart Santen -- Therapeutic stories and play in the sandtray with traumatized children / Susanne Duffy -- Resiliency-based dance/movement therapy to address acute stress and trauma / Amber Elizabeth Gray -- The clay field and developmental trauma in children / Cornelia Elbrecht -- Creative crisis intervention techniques with children and families / Lennis G. Echterling and Anne Stewart -- Vanquishing monsters : drama therapy for treating childhood trauma in the group setting / Craig Haen -- Trauma-informed art therapy and group intervention with children from violent homes / Cathy Malchiodi -- Using creative arts therapies to address the trauma of bullying / Kathy Schnur & Margaret M. McGuinness -- Focusing-oriented expressive arts therapy and mindfulness with children and adolescents / Laury Rappaport -- Music therapy as stress reduction with hospitalized children / Claire Ghetti & Annette Whitehead-Pleaux.

A trusted, bestselling resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music, movement, and drama therapy, as well as bibliotherapy, describe step-by-step strategies for working with children, families, and groups. Rich with case material and artwork, the book is both practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences include parental loss, child abuse, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Important developments in neurobiology, self-regulation, and resilience and posttraumatic growth are highlighted in this substantial revision.

New to This Edition:
*Chapters on art therapy and EMDR, body maps and dissociation, sandtray play, resiliency-based movement therapy, work with clay, mindfulness, and stress reduction with music therapy.
*Updated and expanded discussions of trauma-informed therapy and the neurobiological basis for creative interventions.
*The chapter on mass violence has been extensively rewritten with new case material on the Sandy Hook school shooting.