Supporting traumatized children and teenagers : a guide to providing understanding and help

This book explores different reactions to trauma and the impact it can have. It outlines appropriate and effective ways of helping children after at traumatic event, including different methods of therapy. Contents include: what is trauma?; Children's reactions during and after traumatic events; some important aspects of trauma; girls and boys? Alike or different?; the significance of friends following a trauma; what promotes risk and what protects?; help for children after traumas; groups for children following trauma; post traumatic therapy; traumas and the school; being a helper.

First published in 1997 in Norwegian