Clinical Work with Traumatized Young Children
Edited by Joy D. Osofsky
Foreword by Alicia F. Lieberman
Request a free digital professor copy on VitalSource ?“This edited text focuses on interventions for children under the age of five, an age group that is often lost in other contributions on victims of trauma. The book has other strengths, namely the overview of therapeutic approaches, its practice relevance and evidence-base, and the application of these approaches and research findings across different settings and circumstances....I particularly liked the empathic side of many chapters in considering the impact of interventions on different agencies and staff involved such as mental health professionals and judges. Supervisors and a range of practitioners will find the final chapter on the 'vicarious traumatisation' (or compassion fatigue) of staff extremely valuable; and so will researchers in the field.”
—Child and Adolescent Mental Health
“The vulnerability of young children's emotions is movingly documented on these pages, as are avenues of hope. Leading experts in the field profile the most promising approaches to promoting recovery and healing in traumatized young children. As they do so, we learn about the importance of relational support, understanding developmental needs, multigenerational influences, and the importance of social systems coming together around the needs of young children. A valuable resource for clinicians, early childhood practitioners, teachers and students, and anyone concerned with the early years.”
—Ross A. Thompson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
“Children make meaning of themselves and the world using their bodies, brains, physiology, minds, and actions. This book, from passionate researchers and clinicians, makes it painfully clear how trauma distorts all of children’s meaning-making processes. The contributors recognize how trauma intrudes into children's everyday, moment-by-moment experiences—but they also demonstrate ways to help children create new, resilient meanings for themselves. The book is more than state of the art; it will be constitutive of a new understanding of trauma.”
—Ed Tronick, PhD, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Boston
“Osofsky has engineered an accessible and valuable resource for professionals across the disciplines that collaborate to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and families impacted by isolated or continual trauma. This book provides important perspectives for any contemporary practitioner.”
—Constance Cohen, Juvenile Court Judge, Des Moines, Iowa
“Timely and invaluable....A collection of chapters that, when read as a whole, redefine the landscape of what is needed to intervene effectively in transforming the impact of trauma and, when read individually, convey extraordinary devotion, insight, and know-how in creating the conditions to alleviate suffering and instill hope.”
—from the Foreword by Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD, Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Trauma through the Eyes of a Young Child, Joy D. OsofskyI. Perspectives Related to Trauma and Its Impact on Young Children
2. The Impact of Trauma on the Developing Social Brain: Development and Regulation in Relationship, Patricia Van Horn
3. "They Just Don't Get It": A Diversity-Informed Approach to Understanding Engagement, Chandra Ghosh Ippen and Marva L. Lewis
II. Evaluation and Treatment Models for Infants and Young Children Exposed to Trauma
4. Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Traumatized Young Children in Kinship Care: Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Intervention, Patricia Van Horn, Lili Gray, Beth Pettinelli, and Natalia Estassi
5. Attachment-Based Treatment for Young, Vulnerable Children, Mary Dozier, Johanna Bick, and Kristin Bernard
6. Relational Interventions for Young Children Who Have Been Maltreated, Sheree L. Toth, Jody Todd Manly, and Alisa Hathaway
7. The Importance of Relationship-Based Evaluations for Traumatized Young Children and Their Caregivers, Amy Dickson and Mindy Kronenberg
III. Young Children from Military Families Exposed to Trauma, Including the Stress of Deployment
8. The Impact of Parental Combat Injury on Young Military Children, Stephen J. Cozza and Margaret M. Feerick
9. Working with Young Children of the National Guard and Reserve during a Family Member's Deployment, Juliet M. Vogel, Jennifer M. Newman, and Sandra J. Kaplan
10. Coming Together Around Military Families, Dorinda Williams and Lynette Fraga
IV. Working in Juvenile Court with Abused and Neglected Young Children of Substance-Abusing Parents
11. Treating Drug-Addicted Mothers and Their Infants: A Guide for Understanding and Clinical Practice, Stacey R. Bromberg and Karen A. Frankel
12. Partnerships for Young Children in Court: How Judges Shape Collaborations Serving Traumatized Children, Gwynneth Smith, Mary O'Grady, Donna J. Hitchens, Patricia Van Horn, and Alicia F. Lieberman
13. Dependency Drug Court: An Intensive Intervention for Traumatized Mothers and Young Children, Jeri B. Cohen, Gayle A. Dakof, and Eliette Duarte
14. Zero to Three Family Drug Treatment Court, Douglas F. Johnson
V. Special Issues
15. Young Children and Disasters: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina about the Impact of Disasters and Postdisaster Recovery, Joy D. Osofsky
16. The Role of Pediatric Practitioners in Identifying and Responding to Traumatized Children, Betsy McAlister Groves and Marilyn Augustyn
17. Vicarious Traumatization and the Need for Self-Care in Working with Traumatized Young Children, Joy D. Osofsky
About the Editor
Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, a clinical and developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst, is Barbara Lemann Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, where she is also Head of the Division of Pediatric Mental Health. Dr. Osofsky is Codirector of the Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center, part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and Director of the Harris Program for Infant Mental Health. Her research, consulting, and clinical work focus on infants, children, and families exposed to trauma as a result of disasters, community and domestic violence, maltreatment, and military deployment. Dr. Osofsky is past president of Zero to Three and of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. She is a recipient of, among other honors, the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and of the Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association, for her work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.Contributors
Marilyn Augustyn, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MassachusettsKristin Bernard, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Johanna Bick, MA,Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Stacey R. Bromberg, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Siobhan Kelleher Casey, MS, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, Washington, DC
Jeri B. Cohen, JD,11th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division, Miami, Florida
Stephen J. Cozza, MD, Col, U.S. Army (Ret), Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
Gayle A. Dakof, PhD, 11th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division, Miami, Florida
Amy Dickson, PsyD, Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mary Dozier, PhD, Early Learning Center, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Eliette Duarte, LMHC, 11th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division, Miami, Florida
Natalia Estassi, PsyD, Safe Start Program, San Carlos, California
Margaret M. Feerick, PhD, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
Lynette Fraga, PhD, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, Washington, DC
Karen A. Frankel, PhD. Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD, Child Trauma Research Project, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Lili Gray, PhD,Adult Child and Family Counseling Center, Jewish Child and Family Services,
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Betsy McAlister Groves, LCSW, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Alisa Hathaway, MSW, Mt. Hope Family Center, Rochester, New York
Donna J. Hitchens, JD, San Francisco Superior Court, San Francisco, California
Douglas F. Johnson, JD, Douglas County Juvenile Court, Omaha, Nebraska
Sandra J. Kaplan, MD (deceased), Division of Trauma Psychiatry, The Florence and Robert A. Rosen Family Wellness Center for Law Enforcement and Military Personnel and Their Families,Department of Psychiatry, North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System,Manhasset, New York
Mindy Kronenberg, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Marva L. Lewis, PhD, School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD, Child Trauma Research Project, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
Jody Todd Manly, PhD, Mt. Hope Family Center, Rochester, New York
Jennifer M. Newman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Manhasset, New York
Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mary O'Grady, MSW,Unified Family Court, San Francisco, California
Beth Pettinelli, LCSW, Jewish Child and Family Services, Northbrook, Illinois
Gwynneth Smith, JD, PhD,Child Trauma Research Program, University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
Sheree L. Toth, PhD, Mt. Hope Family Center, Rochester, New York
Patricia Van Horn, PhD, Child Trauma Research Program, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
Juliet M. Vogel, PhD, Division of Trauma Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, North Shore Hospital, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Manhasset, New York
Dorinda Williams, MSW, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, Washington, DC