Healing Child and Family Trauma throu..., Janet A. Courtney
Healing Child and Family Trauma throu..., Janet A. Courtney
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Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies
Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness

Author: Janet A. Courtney

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

Healing assessments and interventions from disparate areas of knowledge such as art, nature, and storytelling.

There are many ways to help children and families heal from trauma. Leaning on our ancestral wisdom of healing through play, art, nature, storytelling, body, touch, imagination, and mindfulness practice, Janet A. Courtney helps the clinician bring a variety of practices into the therapy room.

This book identifies seven stages of therapy that provide a framework for working with client's emotional, cognitive, somatic, and sensory experiences to heal from trauma. Through composite case illustrations, practitioners will learn how to safely mitigate a range of trauma content, including complicated grief, natural disaster, children in foster care, aggression, toxic divorce, traumatized infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and young mothers recovering from opioid addiction.

Practice exercises interspersed throughout guide practitioners to personally engage in the creative expressive and play therapy techniques presented in each chapter, augmenting professional self-awareness and skill-building competencies.

About Janet A. Courtney

Janet A. Courtney is founder of FirstPlay Therapy®, in Palm Beach County, Florida. She is chair of the APT Ethics and Practice Committee and coeditor of Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Becca on December 26, 2024

A super helpful first dive into practical interventions to use in the child and family therapy space. I listened to the book but also plan to purchase it to keep in my office for reference. This book is a great first look into many techniques, and makes me want to dive deeper into learning these tec......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on May 27, 2023

This book is very much so written for professional therapists. But it gives a good overview of each chapter at different times of therapy and exam work. Fuck are therapist OK with me technical jargon very much enjoy this book.......more