Treating Trauma in Adolescents: Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship

This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens.It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment relationship that can help get development back on track.Martha B. Straus draws on extensive clinical experience as well as cutting-edge research on attachment, developmental trauma, and interpersonal neurobiology.Vivid case material shows how to engage challenging or reluctant clients, implement interventions that foster self-regulation and an integrated sense of identity, and tap into both the teen's and the therapist's moment-to-moment emotional experience.Essential topics include ways to involve parents and other caregivers in treatment.