Creative therapies for complex trauma : helping children and families in foster care, kinship care or adoption / edited by Anthea Hendry and Joy Hasler ; foreword by Colwyn Trevarthen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Intro -- Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption, edited by Anthea Hendry and Joy Hasler -- Foreword - Colwyn Trevarthen -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Anthea Hendry and Joy Hasler -- Part 1 - Mapping Out the Territory -- 1. Complex Trauma in Children: An Overview of Theoretical Developments - Franca Brenninkmeyer -- 2. Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Theory into Practice - Anthea Hendry -- 3. Putting Theory into Practice: Implications for Caregivers - Janet Smith -- Part 2 - Clinical Applications of Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma -- 4. How Does Trauma Affect the Whole Family? Assessments of the Effect of Trauma on Attachment Relationships - Joy Hasler -- 5. Beyond Words: Family Futures' Neuro Physiological Psychotherapy Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Traumatized Children - Alan Burnell and Jay Vaughan -- 6. Dyadic Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy with Children Who Have Been Exposed to Complex Trauma - Anthea Hendry and Elizabeth Taylor Buck -- 7. Healing Rhythms: Music Therapy for Attachment and Trauma - Joy Hasler -- 8. Making a Drama: Interview with a Dramatherapist Who Works with Adoptive Families - Molly Holland and Joy Hasler -- 9. When Play Therapy Is Not Enough: Using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing/Bilateral Stimulation in Combination with Play Therapy for the Child with Complex Trauma - Renée Potgieter Marks -- 10. Dance Movement Therapy in Attachment Work: 'Repetitive, Rhythmic, Relevant, Relational, Respectful and Rewarding' - Hannah Guy and Sue Topalian -- Part 3: - Complex Trauma and Creative Practice in Education -- 11. Adapting to Working in Schools with the Family Futures' Neuro Physiological Approach - Marion Allen.
12. Rules, Relationships and Ripples: Therapy in a Specialist Residential School - Sarah Ayache and Martin Gibson -- Sarah Ayache and Martin Gibson -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Organizations -- Subject Index -- Author Index

A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.

Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative book describes models for working with children in foster care, kinship care or adoption. Covering how to assess needs and contextual considerations for working with children and families, this book presents a range of creative therapeutic approaches spanning art psychotherapy, music therapy and dance therapy. It emphasizes the necessity of working with caregivers and other significant adults, as well as the child, to facilitate recovery. The theoretical foundations of attachment, developmental psychology and neurobiology are embedded in each chapter showing how they underpin each of the recommended creative therapies.

This book will be suitable for professionals directly employing creative approaches in their practice, such as arts therapists and play therapists, as well as those working with children who are interested in creative alternate approaches, such as psychologists, counsellors, therapists and social workers.