Full Description
Nurturing Children describes children's lives transformed through therapy.
Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis alongside modern developmental thinking from neurobiology, attachment and trauma theory and mindfulness, Music creates his own distinctive blend of approaches to help even the most traumatised of children.
A mix of personal accounts and therapeutic riches, Nurturing Children will appeal to anyone helping children, young people and families to lead fuller lives.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: One foot in the ditch
Chapter 3: Resilience, mismatches and repair
Chapter 4: Attachment, and jumpy untrusting kids
Chapter 5: Stuart: growing an 'inner executive' and a mind to think thoughts
Chapter 6: Left hemispheres rule, feelings avoided. Jenny and Edward
Chapter 7: Neglected children: why it is easy yet dangerous to neglect neglect
Chapter 8: Bringing up the bodies: body awareness and easeful selves
Chapter 9: Trauma and treading carefully
Chapter 10: Angels and devils: sadism and violence in children
Chapter 11: Altruism and compassion: how they can be turned on and off
Chapter 12: Addiction, tech and the web: new dangers hijacking old systems
Chapter 13: Freeing the scapegoat by containing not blaming: thoughts on schools-based therapeutic work (with Becky Hall)
Chapter 14: Concluding thoughts
