Full Description
Foundations, Trauma, and the Child's Voice in Sibling Relationships is the essential foundation for trauma-informed assessments of sibling relationships in care and permanence planning. This book provides professionals with the theoretical, legal and emotional tools to challenge their assumptions and understand the child's context. With rich case material and deep psychological insight, this volume offers a new lens through which to understand what children say, and don't say, about their siblings, and why these insights are crucial to ethical decision making. The authors' other publication A Trauma Model for Assessing Siblings develops from this text to deliver a rigorous, trauma-informed framework for assessing and supporting sibling relationships in a range of care-giving settings. 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: Foundations: Values, Attitudes, Beliefs and Biases 1. One Hand Clapping: Coherence in Fragmented Practice 2. The Mirror in the Room: Self-Awareness in Sibling Decisions Part 2: The Children's Context 3. Siblings in the Shadows: When One Child Suffers 4. Shattered Bonds: Trauma's Impact on Siblinghood 5. Between the Lines: Children's Voices on Sibling Relationships Part 3: Evidence and Ethics: Research, Law and Policy 6. The Myth and the Measure: What Research Really Tells Us 7. Law and Paradox: Policy, Courts and Sibling Futures Part 4: Trauma and Development: Body, Brain and Behaviour 8. Incubated in Terror or Held in Mind? Attachment, Regulation and Developmental Trauma 9. Brains Under Siege: How Trauma Shapes Development and Behaviour 10. Bound by Fear: How Trauma Hijacks Attachment 11. The Quiet Parts Loud: Children's Voices in Sibling Decisions Part 5: Hearing the Child: Listening, Validating and Understanding 12. Between Truth and Survival: Forensic Neutrality. Therapeutic Empathy, and the Discipline of Hypotheses 13. Conversations on the Edge: Staying Within the Window of Tolerance 14. Entwined and Unravelled: The Dynamics of Sibling Conversations 15. Hold the Adult, Help the Child: Conversations with Parents and Carers 16. Between the Ship and the Anchor: The Pull of Sibling Ties 17. Echoes of Separation: Adults Reflect on Siblings Lost and Togetherness
