Richard Kagan

Real Life Heroes: Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families, Second Edition is an organized and easy-to-use reference for practitioners providing therapy to children and caregivers with traumatic stress. This step-by-step guide is an accompanying text to the workbook Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Third Edition and provides professionals with structured tools for helping children to reintegrate painful memories and to foster healing from traumatic experiences. The book is a go-to resource for practitioners in child and family service agencies and treatment centers to implement trauma-informed, resiliency-centered and evidence-supported services for children with traumatic stress.

Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families, 2nd Edition

Real Life Heroes

Help children overcome the pain of trauma and develop a healthy sense of self Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition is the updated classic that helps children with traumatic stress move from painful or fractured memories to a more positive perspective, not by denying hardships, but by drawing strength from the supportive people in their lives. This innovative workbook uses a creative arts approach that encourages children to work with caring adults to develop autobiographies through a wide range of activities, including drawings, music, movies, and narrative. The results foster positive values and a sense of pride in children as they form a stronger bond with caring and committed adults and protection from adversity and stressors that exist in everyday life. Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition is a therapeutic resource that helps children overcome the difficulties they may face, including divorce, separation, placement, learning problems, serious illness, and hospitalization. The workbook highlights and preserves for children the moments in their lives when "important" people--family, friends, and community--showed kindness, caring, understanding, and courage, giving the child a sense of value that can promote transformation of troubled children from victims into tomorrow''s heroes. The life storybook is especially useful for work with children in foster and adoptive families and group care programs. Topics addressed in Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition include: helping children recognize and express feelings (affect regulation) inviting the child to draw, act out, and write a brief story of someone in his or her life who has acted like a hero helping a child recall memories of adults who provided care helping a child remember strengths, skills, and supportive relationships that helped him or her encouraging a child to chronicle his or her moves between different locations and homes helping a child build self-soothing skills with imagery and body awareness skills helping a child process difficult memories utilizing skills, support from caring adults, and cognitive processing techniques helping a child to develop a successful self-image for the future Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition is a rich resource for counselors, psychotherapists, teachers, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and mentors who are working to help troubled children to overcome traumas and to rebuild hope and a positive identity.n, placement, learning problems, serious illness, and hospitalization. The workbook highlights and preserves for children the moments in their lives when "important" people--family, friends, and community--showed kindness, caring, understanding, and courage, giving the child a sense of value that can promote transformation of troubled children from victims into tomorrow''s heroes. The life storybook is especially useful for work with children in foster and adoptive families and group care programs. Topics addressed in Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition include: helping children recognize and express feelings (affect regulation) inviting the child to draw, act out, and write a brief story of someone in his or her life who has acted like a hero helping a child recall memories of adults who provided care helping a child remember strengths, skills, and supportive relationships that helped him or her encouraging a child to chronicle his or her moves between different locations and homes helping a child build self-soothing skills with imagery and body awareness skills helping a child process difficult memories utilizing skills, support from caring adults, and cognitive processing techniques helping a child to develop a successful self-image for the future Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition is a rich resource for counselors, psychotherapists, teachers, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and mentors who are working to help troubled children to overcome traumas and to rebuild hope and a positive identity.;li>encouraging a child to chronicle his or her moves between different locations and homes helping a child build self-soothing skills with imagery and body awareness skills helping a child process difficult memories utilizing skills, support from caring adults, and cognitive processing techniques helping a child to develop a successful self-image for the future Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition is a rich resource for counselors, psychotherapists, teachers, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and mentors who are working to help troubled children to overcome traumas and to rebuild hope and a positive identity.

A Life Storybook for Children

Learn to build the trust you need to help children in crisis! Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect is a therapeutic guide to helping troubled children move beyond the traumatic experiences that haunt them. Author Dr. Richard Kagan, Director of Psychological Services for Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York, presents comprehensive information on how to understand—and surmount—the impact of loss, neglect, separation, and violence on children’s development, how to discover and foster strengths in children and their families, and how to rebuild connections and hope for children who are at risk of harm to themselves and others. This unique book is designed to be used in tandem with Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children (Haworth), an innovative workbook that helps children develop the self-esteem they need to overcome the worries and fears of their past through a creative arts approach that fosters positive values and a sense of pride. Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children helps children move from negative or suppressed memories to a more positive perspective, not by denying hardships, but by drawing strength from the supportive people in their lives. Practitioners can use the book as a framework and detailed guide to assessment, engagement, development of service plans, and implementation of attachment and trauma therapy. The book is a comprehensive model for working to build the trust necessary before other trauma therapy approaches can be successfully initiated. Topics examined in Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children include: attachment theory and research types of attachment problems PTSD behaviors permanency work with children in placement ADHD, bipolar, and RAD cognitive behavioral therapies storytelling therapies the myth of perfection neuropsychological patterns and much more! Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children is a rich resource for practitioners, academics, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and anyone working to show troubled children how to learn from the past, resolve problems in the present, and build a better future.

Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect

Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children

The Hero’s Mask Guidebook provides practical strategies to be used alongside the The Hero’s Mask novel. The Guidebook has been designed to promote an understanding of the impact of traumatic stress and what counselors, therapists, educators, parents and caregivers can do to promote healing and recovery. The Guidebook and storybook can be used together to spark conversations around the difficult topics of loss and trauma and to create openings for renewing and strengthening emotionally supportive relationships with distressed children after traumatic experiences. The Guidebook identifies resources to access information about treatment programs and strategies that can help children and families with traumatic stress and integration of The Hero’s Mask books with Real Life Heroes®, an evidence-supported treatment program for children and families with traumatic stress.

A Resource for Educators, Counselors, Therapists, Parents and Caregivers

The Hero’s Mask Guidebook: Helping Children with Traumatic Stress

Inspired by a new teacher using stories of heroes to shape the curriculum, eleven-year-old Carrie and her friends work together to stop the bullies picking on their classmates and unravel the mysteries in their school. Includes a note from the author.

The Hero's Mask

Limited possibility of travelling in the country.

Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

Miguel León-Portilla

Martin Kemp

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Jonathan Brown

Michael D. Coe

Stuart Cary Welch

J. H. Elliott

Giulio Carlo Argan

David Woodward

Craig Morris

Irving Rouse

Luís de Albuquerque

Martin Collcutt

Jean Michel Massing

J. J. Martín González

Ezio Bassani

J. Michael Rogers

Julian Raby

Francis Maddison

Sherman E. Lee

Gari Ledyard

F. W. Mote

José Juan Arrom

James E. Brown

Warwick Bray

Surveys the art of the Age of Exploration in Europe, the Far East, and the Americas

Art in the Age of Exploration

Circa 1492

"This book is designed to be used in tandem with Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children (Haworth), a workbook that helps children develop the self-esteem they need to overcome the worries and fears of their past through a creative arts approach that fosters affect management skills, positive values, a sense of pride, and a safe, nurturing relationship with a caring, committed adult."--BOOK JACKET.

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