Healing the Heart: Helping Your Child Thrive After Trauma

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Healing the Heart provides parents with specific tools to help their trauma-impacted children.

Trauma permeates America's families, and no one is immune to its impact. Natural disasters, community and institutional violence, adverse childhood experiences-these events impact the developing brains and bodies of our youth. This book combines the research on adverse childhood experiences and other traumatic events, positive psychology, and resilience. Is presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style. Using evidence-based strategies, inspirational stories, and role-playing scenarios. it also includes the information and tools needed to heal the negative impact of traumatic events. With specific strategies to address diverse forms of trauma and diverse populations, this book is a must-read resource for anyone wanting to reestablish safety, increase resilience, and help heal the long-term impact of trauma.

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Thoroughly reader friendly in tone, commentary, organization and presentation, "Healing the Heart: Helping Your Child Thrive After Trauma" will prove to be a timely, welcome, and enduringly useful addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library parenting collections.

,Midwest Book Review, 4/19/20

Author Bio

Christine Fonseca has worked in the field of education for more than a decade. Relying on her expertise as a school psychologist, behavioral consultant, speaker, and parenting expert, she has been a resource for parents and children in understanding the social and emotional needs of gifted children.