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Useful Resources

Building Relationships, Attachment, Developmental Trauma

 

  • Booth, P (2009) Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships through Attachment Based Play. Jossey-Bass

  • De Thierry, B (2017) The simple Guide to child Trauma. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • De Thierry, B (2019) The simple guide to understanding shame in children. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • De Thierry, B (2019) The simple guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • Gerhard, S (20014) Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain

  • Golding, K and Hughes, D (2012) Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child.  Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • Golding, K (2008) Nurturing Attachments Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • Guerney, L. and Ryan, V (2013) Group Filial Therapy:  The Complete Guide to Teaching Parents to Play Therapeutically with their Children. Jessica Kingsley Publications

  • Hughes, D.  and Baylin, J (2012) Brain – Based Parenting: The Science of Caregiving

  • for Healthy Attachment.  New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co

  • Hughes, D.A., Golding, K.S., Hudson, J (2019) Healing Relational Trauma with
    Attachment Focused Interventions.  WW Norton, NY and London

  • Perry, B (2006) The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog.  Basic Books

Books:

Online Resources:

  • In Brief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children’s Development. This is a very readable overview, with picture and an accompanying video. Click here to access this.

  • The Beacon House website – a fantastic collection of brilliant resources, information and advice  for children, families and schools. Click here to access it.

  • The Beacon House video on Window Of Tolerance can be found here

  • The Child Trauma Academy website, which has lots of good resources. Click here to access it.

  • They also have other resources, including videos, such as The Human Brain videocast by Bruce Perry (2013) as part of their Seven slide series. Click here to watch it.

  • Ruby Jo Walker has some excellent resources on her website eg Polyvagal theory explained in a useful and simple format. Click here to access it.

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Parenting

 

  • Elliot. A (2013) Why can’t my child behave? Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • Greene R and J Stuart Ablon (2006) Treating explosive Kids, the collaborative problem solving approach. Guilford.

  • Greene. R (2014) The explosive Child. Harper

  • Hill. K (2018) Left to their own devices? Confident parenting in a world of screens. Muddy Pearl.

  • Naish. S (2018) The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • Norris. V and Rodwell. H (2017) Parenting with Theraplay. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • Phelan. T. (2016) 1-2-3 Magic, the 3 step discipline for calm, effective and happy parenting. Sourcebooks

  • Siegel.D and Payne Bryson. T (2012) The Whole Brain Child. 12 Proven strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind. Robinson

  • Siegel. D and Payne Bryon. T (2016) No Drama Discipline. PESI

  • Siegel. D and Hartzell. M (2016) Parenting from the Inside out. Scribe

  • Shafran. R, Saunders. U and Welham. A (2021) How to cope when your child can’t.
    Comfort, help and hope for parents. Robison

Books:

Internal Family Systems

 

  • Post. B (2009) The Great Behaviour Breakdown. Post  publications

  • Post. B (2010) From Fear to Love. Post Publications

  • Schwartz. R. (2021) No Bad Parts. Sounds True

  • Spiegel. L (2017) Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children. Routledge

Books:

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Teenagers

 

  • Havey. A and Puccio. D (2016) Sex, Like and Social Media. Talking to our teens in the digital age.  Vermillion

  • Orenstien.P (2016) Girls and Sex. One World.

  • Phelan. T (2016) 1-2-3 Magic Teen. Sourcebooks

Books:

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Building underdeveloped sensory systems

Books:

  • Brukner. L (2016) The kid’s guide to staying awesome and in control. Simple stuff to help Kids regulate their emotions and senses.

  • Lloyd. S (2016) Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatised Children. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia

  • New Tab: Child development

  • Murray, L. and Andrews, L. (2000) The Social Baby. CP Publishing, Richmond, Surrey, UK

  • Music, G (2011) Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development.  Psychology Press

  • Sharma, A. and Cockerill, H(2014) Mary Sheridan’s from Birth to Five Years: Children’s Developmental Progress. Routledge

  • Tredgett, S (2015) Learning through Movement in the Early Years,   Critical Publishing
     

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