Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models

About this book

With contributions from prominent experts this pragmatic book takes a close look at the nature of complex psychological trauma in children and adolescents and the clinical challenges it presents. Each chapter shows how a complex trauma perspective can provide an invaluable unifying framework for case conceptualization assessment and intervention amidst the chaos and turmoil of these young patients lives. A range of evidence-based and promising therapies are reviewed and illustrated with vivid case vignettes. The volume is grounded in clinical innovations and cutting-edge research on child and adolescent brain development attachment and emotion regulation and discusses diagnostic criteria including those from DSM-IV and DSM-5. See also Drs. Ford and Courtoiss edited volume Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults Second Edition and their authored volume Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced Relationship-Based Approach.