| Description |
ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 ; cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- vii Acknowledgements -- Introduction 1 -- 1 -- 2 -- About the Participants -- How Do These Children Present? -- What Are Their Central Concerns and How Do They Affect -- Development? -- A Summary Profile of Children Who Live with Conflict -- 3 -- and Violence -- Long-Term Effects -- What Are the Goals of This Group Approach? -- The Activities and Overall Treatment Plan -- About the Leaders -- Planning and Managing a Group -- Adapting the Group to Cultural/Ethnic Differences -- 8 -- 9 -- 9 -- 11 -- 19 -- 20 -- 24 -- Part I: Little Kids' (Lk) Manual -- LK Session 1. Saying Hello and Making Me Feel Safe -- 29 in Group -- 34 LK Session 2. How I Am Feeling: Same and Different -- 39 LK Session 3. Feeling Words and Faces: Who I Am -- 44 LK Session 4. Exploring Levels of Feeling -- LK Session 5. Managing My Good and Bad Feelings -- 50 at One Time -- LK Session 6. Feeling and Being Me: Separate -- 54 and Together -- 58 LK Session 7. It's Okay to Be Different -- LK Session 8. Going Back and Forth: Managing -- Transitions and Change -- LK Session 9. Managing When Parents Fight -- LK Session 10. Safety Planning and Ways of Coping -- LK Session 11. Masking Feelings: My Inside -- and Outside Self -- LK Session 12. Remembering and Saying Good-Bye -- LK Session Tips and Guidelines -- Puppet Etiquette and Puppet Biographies -- Group Structure and Handling Behaviors -- Part Ii: Big Kids' (Bk) Manual -- BK Session 1. Saying Hello and Making a Safe Place -- to Work Together -- BK Session 2. Exploring Levels of Feelings, Actions, -- and Points of View -- BK Session 3. Making a Safe Inside Place and Learning -- the Rules of Role-Play -- BK Session 4. Exploring a Safe Inside Place and Back -- to Reality -- BK Session 5. Defining Wishes for Yourself and Rules -- That Work for Your Family and Relationships -- BK Session 6. Exploring the Mirror: Who You Are -- and How You Show Your Feelings -- BK Session 7. Exploring Your Inside Self and Your -- Outside Self -- 63 -- BK Session 8. Making a Family Sculpture: Who We Are -- 156 and Who We Could Be -- BK Session 9. Becoming the Experts on Living -- 166 with Change, Loss, and Conflict -- BK Session 10. Telling Your Story So Far, Thinking -- About Who You Want to Be in the Future, -- 174 and Saying Good-bye -- Part Iii: Appendixes -- Appendix A. Troubleshooting for Both LK and BK -- 189 Groups -- 197 Appendix B. Psychoeducational Groups for Parents -- 201 Appendix C. An Evaluation Study of the Group Model -- 205 Notes -- 207 Bibliography -- 209 Index |
| Summary |
This easy-to-understand, step-by-step manual is a developmentally appropriate treatment curriculum for traumatized school-aged children. Age-appropriate sections separate therapy for big or little kids, focusing on efficacy while presenting a comfortable multi-ethnic, multi-cultural model. A Safe Place to Grow has easy-to-understand descriptions of techniques, with each session in the curriculum containing games and activities that are therapeutic yet flexible enough to be modified whenever the situation warrants. A chapter is included to helpfully troubleshoot problems encountered when in session with either age group of children. A Safe Place to Grow provides a sequence of activities within the group model aimed at each of these five goals: creating common ground and safety; exploring the language and complexity of feeling; defining and understanding the self; defining and revising roles and relationships; restoring a moral order |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index |
| Subject |
Abused children -- Counseling of.
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Children and violence.
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Children of abused wives -- Counseling of.
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Children of divorced parents -- Counseling of.
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Dysfunctional families -- Psychological aspects.
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Group psychotherapy for children.
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Victims of family violence -- Counseling of.
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Psychotherapy, Group.
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Child.
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Psychotherapy, Group -- methods.
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Child Abuse -- therapy.
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Domestic Violence -- psychology.
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Family Therapy -- methods.
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| Author |
Roseby, Vivienne, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2005015892 |
| ISBN |
0789027682 (hard : alk. paper) |
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0789027690 (soft : alk. paper) |
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9780789027689 |
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