Helping Your Child with Loss and Trauma: A self-help guide for parents

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Is your chid struggling to cope with a loss or trauma? This essential guide provides informed advice for parents about how to support your children when they encounter difficulties with bereavement, separation and trauma. Although loss and trauma are an inevitable part of life, some children find such events overwhelming and in some cases they can become traumatised by them. Research has indicated that children are less likely to develop problems such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) if they are provided with the appropriate support and opportunities to talk about difficult events and their impact on them. However, often parents are unsure how to go about supporting their children through potentially traumatic events, and may worry that they might actually make things worse if they talk about it. This book will help you to understand the impact that loss and trauma can have on your children; it will help to prepare your children for anticipated events and it will help to increase their resilience in coping. Helping Your Child is a series for parents and caregivers to support children through developmental difficulties, both psychological and physical. Each guide uses clinically proven techniques.

David Trickey (Author) Dr David Trickey is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist specialising in helping traumatised and bereaved children and young people. He works at the Anna Freud Centre in London and at Cambridge Clinical Psychology Services. He has worked as a clinical psychologist with children and young people since 1994, becoming Head of Child Psychology in South Lincolnshire in 1998, and has specialised in trauma and bereavement since 2000 when he worked at the Traumatic Stress Clinic as it became part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to evaluate the Humanitarian Assistance Centre following the London terrorist attacks on 7th July 2005. From 2006 he was Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary Children's Hospital and then in 2009 he became Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist of a Child Trauma and Bereavement Service as it left the NHS and became a Social Enterprise. He acts as an Expert Witness or Advisor for the Courts or the Police, teaches on the Child and Young Person - Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (CYP-IAPT) course at University College London (UCL), is part of the group that advises the national CYP-IAPT project on the use of outcome measures, he supervises doctoral research, and was a part of the NICE Evidence Update Group on PTSD. Vicky Lawson (Author) DR VICKY LAWSON is principal health psychologist at Talking Therapies Southwark, and is the psychologist clinical champion for promoting the benefits of physical activity for Public Health England. She specialises in eating behaviour, physical activity and weight management.