· What is trauma?
· How does it affect children?
· How can adults help?
Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child’s emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome strategies to aid recovery. Reassuring advice will also rejuvenate adults’ abilities to face the challenges of supporting children.
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David Shemmings is Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. He undertook his Ph D in attachment theory, and has spent most of his working life in the field of child protection. David was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 2014 for ‘Services to Child Protection’.