Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma Gretchen Mertz Cowell Photographs of each posture supplement

Photographs of each posture supplement the descriptions

and partners and close family members explain how it has affected them

This book will ensure that practitioners

practical advice and encouragement for the mothering figure when things are not following the normal attachment and development patterns… This highly readable book is highly recommended for everyone fostering or adopting very young children

Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma Gretchen Mertz Cowell Photographs of each posture supplementHelping children and adolescents who have experienced trauma to feel safe and confident enough to talk, let alone engage in therapeutic work, can be full of challenges for children and for adults. Conversation Starters For Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma aims to make this process easier for practitioners, by offering gentle, playful techniques to help children who are closed or withdrawn to start to open up. With over 80 activities