The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma
What It Is, How It Affects Us and How to Help
Betsy de Thierry author Emma Reeves illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published:21st Jul '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This guide offers insights into collective trauma and its effects on children, emphasizing recovery and resilience strategies throughout the community.
In The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma, readers are introduced to the concept of collective trauma and its profound effects on children and communities. The guide provides a clear explanation of what collective trauma is, how it manifests, and the various ways it can impact the lives of young people. Through accessible language and relatable examples, the book aims to demystify this complex topic, making it easier for adults to understand and address the challenges faced by children in the wake of shared traumatic experiences.
The book delves into the characteristics of collective trauma, examining how it can lead to feelings of grief and loss within families and communities. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing these impacts, as understanding them is the first step in supporting recovery. By offering practical advice, The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma equips readers with the tools needed to help children and young people heal and build resilience in both individual and communal contexts.
Ultimately, this guide serves as a vital resource for anyone looking to better comprehend the nuances of collective trauma. With its focus on fostering understanding and resilience, it encourages readers to take proactive steps in supporting those affected by trauma, ensuring that healing can occur at multiple levels within society.
Betsy de Thierry's Simple Guides never fail to deliver common sense, easy to follow explanations for understanding and helping children and adults who are struggling due to trauma. Reading them for the first time, as a foster carer and parent support worker, I felt a sense of hope and empowerment to tackle scary issues with confidence.
This new book in the collection, The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma, doesn't disappoint. With a great balance of information from the field of psychotherapy, Betsy's own experience as a therapist and straightforward, easy to access guides to working with those who have experienced collective trauma, this book is simply brilliant. The message of hope that is heard throughout the book sets it apart as a must read for everyone who is supporting those effected by Collective Trauma or who have experienced it themselves.
This timely text will serve as an accessible and useful resource for busy professionals and parents/carers alike. As with the other texts in this series, Betsy again both demystifies and illuminates complex issues while also equipping the reader with practical skills. -- Bec Mason, Children and Families Practice Trainer (Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partners
ISBN: 9781787757882
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 12mm
Weight: 108g
112 pages