Trauma Informed Parenting

Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can, sometimes, add to the problems these families face, prolonging the healing process for all.

With a focus on embodiment, community, and the sacredness of vulnerability, Sanctuary of Healing provides a vital roadmap for transforming congregations into havens of empathy, resilience, and hope.

If you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering where it all went wrong — this book is for you. When children explode, withdraw, or seem impossible to reach, we’re often told to be firmer and more consistent. But for families living with trauma and neurodivergence, those approaches can make everything worse. Because the problem was never the behaviour. Trauma-Informed Parenting in Action brings together the core content of the Trauma-Informed Parenting workshops delivered by the SCVO charity of the same name, created by Suzanne Scott to share information that changed lives.

When childhood emotions erupt like storms, the whole family feels the aftershocks. DMDD (Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder) is one of the most misunderstood and emotionally exhausting childhood conditions. Parents often face explosive meltdowns, sensory overloads, school discipline battles, PTSD from restraint-based programs, and daily chaos that outsiders can’t begin to understand. In Parenting Through Explosive Childhood, author Devon R. Browning shares a raw, unfiltered, deeply compassionate journey through raising a child whose emotions erupted like earthquakes. Part memoir, part...

With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach—rooted in neuroscience—IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new audio manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications. Easy to listen to and highly practical.

You look fine on the outside. You are competent. Reliable. Capable. You show up. You get things done. People trust you. You have built a life that works. And yet, somewhere underneath all of that, something feels off. You override your own needs. You second-guess your instincts. You say yes when you mean no. You push through exhaustion. You perform strength while quietly feeling disconnected from yourself.

"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." —AudioFile This program is read by the authors. Our...

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child's individual differences in the context of relational safety. This accessible book offers professionals, educators, and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.

Some days, feelings aren’t loud. They’re just too fast. ♥ In The Day My Feelings Wouldn’t Slow Down, children are gently guided through what it feels like when their body and mind won’t calm down, even after they’ve tried to breathe, pause, or “do the right thing.” ♥ Written for children ages 4–8, this comforting story helps kids understand that: ♥ Feeling overwhelmed doesn’t mean something is wrong ♥ Tools don’t always work right away, and that’s okay ♥ Rest is not failure, it’s wisdom ♥ Safe adults help our bodies slow down Through simple language and ...

Many pastors and lay counselors have had minimal training in clinical methods of grief and trauma counseling. The Complete Guide to Crisis and Trauma Counseling is a biblical, practical guide to pastoral counseling written by one of the most respected Christian therapists of our time. Dr. H. Norman Wright brings more than 40 years of clinical and classroom experience to this topic. He shares real-life dialogues from his decades in private practice to demonstrate healthy, healing counseling sessions.

Working in CPS, domestic violence, or related fields can be emotionally challenging. Trauma-Informed Resilience is a bilingual self-care guide offering practical strategies to prevent burnout, maintain professional effectiveness, and build resilience while helping survivors and families.

Designed for psychotherapists and their clients, Peter Levine's latest best-seller continues his groundbreaking exploration of the central role of the body in processing—and healing—trauma. With foreword by Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score In Trauma and Memory...

Building Bounce with Kids is designed to resource families and communities who want to build resilient kids. Life is filled with adversity. Emotional capacity is the key to navigating adversity well. The good news is that no matter how old we are, we can learn to be more resilient. The more resilient our families and communities become, the more resilient our children will be. Written simply and easy to understand, you will finish this book with a robust understanding of how to build strong, healthy attachments with children and walk with them through difficult emotions.

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb, or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other animals, and the planet itself. Through Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way.

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

Healing Your Childhood Wounds to Break the Parenting Cycle A Trauma-Informed Guide to Inner Child Healing, Emotional Reparenting, and Creating the Safety You Never Received Do you ever react to your child in ways that surprise you — a sharp tone, a wave of overwhelm, a feeling of shutting down — even though you promised yourself you’d parent differently? Do you sense that these reactions come from somewhere deeper, maybe even from the parts of your own childhood that never felt fully safe? You’re not failing as a parent. Your younger self is still carrying wounds that were never ...

From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life. Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation - practiced without an awareness of trauma - can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. This raises a crucial question: How can we minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits?

Are you exhausted from constant tantrums, defiance, or full-on meltdowns—wondering if anything will ever work? You're not alone. Many parents are silently drowning in guilt, confusion, and fear that they’ve somehow failed their child. Especially when traditional discipline methods backfire, and advice from professionals only leads to more frustration—or worse, pushes you toward medication as a first resort. This book offers a way out. A real one. Discipline Systems That Work for Out-of-Control Kids is a no-nonsense, deeply practical guide for parents, guardians, and caregivers who are...

Trauma Bonds is motivational, inspirational, and full of hope. Like reading a woman’s diary, the author lets you in on her reflective thoughts throughout. She offers guidance, introspection, and recovery as she walks you through her memoir.