Full Description
A Trauma Model for Assessing Siblings delivers a rigorous, trauma-informed framework for assessing and supporting sibling relationships in a range of care-giving settings. Drawing on decades of therapeutic and social work practice, this volume offers actionable guidance, tools, and insights, culminating in a complete assessment model for use in court, care planning, and therapeutic settings. Building upon the foundational understanding of trauma-informed assessments of sibling relationships in care and permanence planning within the authors' other publication Foundations, Trauma, and the Child's Voice in Sibling Relationships, it addresses when and how to separate siblings, when to keep them together, and how to support ongoing contact in a child-centered, developmentally informed way. An invaluable guide for therapists, counsellors, social workers, child welfare professionals and indeed anyone involved in making decisions regarding the placement of children.
Contents
Part 1: When Siblings Need to be Apart 1. From Mantra to Map: Deciding Sibling Placements 2. Contact Matters or Impact Matters: Risks, Rights and Realities 3. Bridges or Battlegrounds: Contact in Context 4. Healing, Harming or Holding On? Sibling Contact Part 2: When Siblings Can Stay Together 5. Together by Design: Conditions for Stability and Success Part 3: Identity, Healing and Therapeutic Support 6. Hurt-full and Healing Pages: Therapeutic Life Story Work with Traumatised Children Part 4: The Assessment Framework: Thinking, Feeling and Evidencing Well 7. Start Lines and Fault Lines: Timing and Tensions for Sibling Assessments 8. No Foregone Conclusions: A Trauma-Informed Sibling Assessments 9. Listening Before Listing: Making Sence of Adult and Child Narratives 10. From Insight to Action: Analysis and Decision-Making Part 5: Sustaining the Work: Supervision, Wellbeing and Organisational Care 11. Boiling Frogs and Full Up Jugs: Metaphors for Vicarious Trauma 12. When the Work Gets In: Vicarious Trauma, Clinical Supervision and Self Care
