Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies

Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness

By: Janet A. Courtney

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

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.

©2020 Janet A. Courtney (P)2020 Tantor

Artistic and hands-on activities for children with Trauma

This Author did a great job of explaining the content through examples, providing psycho education, and it included activities that therapist and parents can use with their children who have experienced trauma. It was easy to read, and I’m walking away with new ideas that I can use in my practice! I highly recommend it! In addition, this book can be used toward RPT hours!