Resources

This book is for anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do. The fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come?.

Specifically written to address children's fear of being apart from the ones they love, The Invisible String delivers a particularly compelling message in today's uncertain times that though we may be separated from the ones we care for, whether through anger, or distance or even death, love is the unending connection that binds us all, and, by extension, ultimately binds every person on the planet to everyone else.

In this article, the use of the neurosequential model of therapeutics to guide play in the healing process is discussed.

This chapter offers information on the neurosequentail model of therapeutics and present case examples to better understand the concepts.

This article is inspired by Maël's story, which illustrates how sexually and gender diverse individuals may experience adversity. It provides ways to help individuals from this community decrease their anxiety and stress.

This article, written by Dr. Christine R. Ludy-Dobson and Dr. Bruce D. Perry provides information on how the role of healthy relational interactions can buffer the impacts of childhood trauma.

This workbook gives parents the ability to explore their own Seven Core issues including - Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy and Mastery/Control - as well as their child's through varies experiential exercise and activities. Parents can identify and address their core issues in order to more effectively assist and support the child's core issues.

This compendium volume collects some of the most recent research and organizes it within three categories: societal effects, effects on health (including mental health) behaviors, and epigenetic effects. Specific topics include the associations between childhood abuse and the following factors: juvenile sexual offending, juvenile delinquency, adult aggression, cognitive development, adult smoking, sleep patterns, suicidal behaviors, psychopathology, and epigenomic mechanisms.

This article, written by Dr. John Read, Dr. Roar Fosse, Dr. Andrew Moskowitz and Dr. Bruce D. Perry, provides information on the evidence that childhood adversities are risk factors for psychosis has accumulated rapidly. Research into the mechanisms underlying these relationships has focused, productively, on psychological processes, including cognition, attachment and dissociation. Indeed, in this article, the literature on biological mechanisms underlying the relationship between childhood trauma and psychosis published since 2001 is summarized.

This article explains the harmful effects of verbal abuse on children, and highlights the fact that the repercussions can be just as significant as those experienced by children who have been physically abused.