Communicating trauma : clinical presentations and interventions with traumatized children
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages)ISBN:- 9781317802792
- 1317802799
- 9781317802785
- 1317802780
- 9780415743105
- 0415743109
- 9781315813868
- 1315813866
- RJ506.P66
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- A brief overview of communication, language, and development -- Infant communication and attachment : reciprocity, verbalization, and regulation -- Early language development : how language shapes reality and reality shapes communication -- Socialization, semantics, humor, symbolic language, and empathy -- Trauma, maltreatment, and developmental impact -- Indirect trauma : medical, intrauterine, environmental and societal trauma -- Maltreatment : neglect and abuse -- The neuroscience of trauma, emotional regulation, and the developing self -- The language of trauma -- How trauma affects language and why it matters so much more in children -- Trauma's impact on attention and learning -- Trauma's impact on children's vocabulary and semantics -- Trauma's impact on pragmatics: language use, social cues, and discourse rules -- Trauma's impact on memory, organization, and retrieval -- When communication goes awry : clinical presentation and assessment challenges -- Communication symptoms in traumatized and dissociative children -- History, screening, and assessment indicators -- Mending meaning : intervention strategies, collaboration, and the importance of taking care -- Psychoeducation and everyday tools for reducing overwhelm -- Communication intervention for traumatized children -- The promises and challenges of teamwork -- Supporting the supporters : recognizing and managing secondary traumatization -- Afterword: a prognosis of hope -- References -- Index.
Communicating Trauma explores the various aspects of language and communication and how their development can be affected by childhood trauma and overwhelm. Multiple case-study vignettes describe how different kinds of childhood trauma can manifest in children's ability to relate, attend, learn, and communicate. These examples offer ways to understand, respond, and support children who are communicating overwhelm. In this book, psychotherapists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, educators, occupational and physical therapists, medical personnel, foster parents, adoption agencies, a.