Creative interventions with traumatized children

Rich with case material and artwork samples, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book especially practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences addressed include parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family violen.

Creative interventions and childhood trauma / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Effective practice with traumatized children : ethics, evidence, and cultural sensitivity / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Expressive therapy for severe maltreatment and attachment disorders : a neuroscience framework / P. Gussie Klorer -- Music and grief work with children and adolescents / Russell E. Hilliard -- Grieving in the public eye : art therapy with children who lost parents in the World Trade Center attacks / Laura V. Loumeau-May -- Medical art and play therapy with accident survivors / Elizabeth Sanders Martin -- Creative approaches to minimize the traumatic impact of bullying behavior / Diane S. Safran and Elysa R. Safran -- Trauma, loss, and bibliotherapy : the healing power of stories / Cathy A. Malchiodi and Deanne Ginns-Gruenberg -- Creative crisis intervention techniques with children and families / Lennis G. Echterling and Anne Stewart -- Working creatively with children and their families after trauma : the storied life / Ann Cattanach -- Vanquishing monsters : drama therapy for treating childhood trauma in the group setting / Craig Haen -- A group art and play therapy program for children from violent …