Traumatic Experience and the Brain: A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized As Children

Traumatic Experience and the Brain: A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized As Children by Dave Ziegler. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780967118758.

Traumatic Experience and the Brain is the result of Dr. Dave Zieglers three decades of experience with children traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. This book details the effect of such trauma on the developing brain, describing how it actually rewires ones perceptions of self, others, and the world. It is a book of hope for foster, natural, and adoptive parents of such "broken" children and the therapists, teachers and social workers who attempt to help them. Dave Ziegler, M.S., Ph.D., is the director of Scar/Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment program in Oregon for some of societys most damaged children.