Full Description
Trauma affects the lives of many children who we teach in school. It effects the students, teachers who teach them, the administration, and the school community as it is part of the school environment and culture. Teachers and administrators have great potential to set up an environment and adopt an attitude that can help heal the trauma in the lives of their students.
Schools need to become trauma-informed to be able to provide for the growing number of refugee children who have experienced terrorism, crime, war, and abuse, to better help some Indigenous children who due to systemic racism and discriminatory policies have been traumatised and live daily with trauma, and the growing number of all children who have experienced various kinds of trauma during their life span. Trauma informed schools means that all students can feel safe enough to learn, succeed academically and thrive after having undergone a traumatic event.
Trauma Informed Teaching demonstrates how Play Art Narrative (PAN) can be instrumental in creating trauma informed schools. The authors provide play, art, and narrative techniques and activities that educators can use to safely work therapeutically with traumatised children and youth.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
PART 1: What Is PAN: Play Art Narrative?
1 Play
1 Beliefs and Theories about Play
2 Functions of Play
3 Play and Development: An Overview
4 Play & Empathy and Play & Therapy
5 So, How Important Is Play?
2 ART
1 Art Drawing and Child Development
2 Art and Literacy Learning
3 Therapeutic Aspects of the Arts
4 So How Important Is Art?
3 Narrative
1 Narrative and Identity
2 Oral Narratives and Literacy Learning
3 Narrative and Empathy
4 Narrative and Therapy
5 So How Important Is Narrative?
PART 2: Childhood Trauma and School
Introduction to Part 2
4 Trauma Informed Schools and Teaching
1 Social Justice
2 Decolonising Trauma Informed Practice
3 Trauma Informed Teaching and Schools
4 The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
5 What Are Flight, Fight, Freeze Responses?
6 Epigenetics
7 Attachment Styles and Close Relationships: Attachment Cues
8 Sensory Processing Disorder
9 Self-Regulation
10 Resiliency
11 How Traumas Afffect Children's Ability to Learn
12 Principles That Guide Trauma Informed Education
5 Teachers Self-Care and Resiliency
1 Educator Self-Care
2 Talking to Children about Racism
3 LGBT+2 Children and Youth
4 Anger
5 Resiliency
6 Self-Assessment for Becoming a Trauma Informed Teacher
PART 3: Using PAN in Trauma Informed Teaching
Introduction to Part 3
6 Trauma Informed Art and Play Environments
1 Exercises for Emotional Self-Control and Self-Regulation
2 Playing Self-Regulation Games
3 Self-Esteem
4 Relationship Skills
5 Anger Control
6 Social Skills
7 Attention and Focus
8 Summary
7 Mindfulness Activities for Children and Teachers
1 Teaching Focusing to Children
2 Working with Children Using Focusing and Art Therapy
3 Art Exercises for Children in Focused Centred Art Therapy
4 Resources
8 Trauma Resolution Workbook
1 What Is Trauma?
2 Fight/Flight/Freeze
3 Trauma Response: Fight/Flight/Freeze
Index
