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- ISBN: 9780789017871 | 0789017873
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/1/2003
Written in jargon-free lucid prose, this book specifically shows how positive early experiences enhance brain development and how traumatic life experiences, especially child abuse and neglect, can affect a child's brain and behavior. Through carefully selected case studies, it offers basic principles of treatment and a broad range of interventions that target the multiple symptoms and problems seen in children with a history of childhood trauma. Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children examines how interpersonal experience shapes brain development; what is going on in the brain during the critical first six years; how therapeutic relationships and interpersonal experience can promote emotional and cognitive development; how childhood maltreatment can damage the brain and impair the developing mind; what types of experiences and therapeutic strategies can mitigate the effects of childhood trauma; and what policy prescriptions, programs, and early intervention strategies can be implemented to promote healthy development. Susan Fielkow of Doody's Notes says, "AN IMPORTANT BOOK. . . . WELL ORGANIZED, WELL WRITTEN, AND INTERESTING. . . . An important perspective on the effect of psychological trauma on neurochemical development of the brain. It is comprehensive and evocative and leads to questions regarding the larger social impact of psychological trauma and how we should address it. I know of no comparable book."