Attachment Trauma in Kids: Integrative Strategies for Parents (Second)

Techniques for parents to help challenging children with traumatic pasts—now updated and expanded.
Raising kids who experienced early life trauma can be overwhelming for the adults in their lives, whether they're adoptive or foster parents, guardians, or biological parents. The behaviors caused by the impact of trauma on children's brains and nervous systems can be alarming. These kids' mistrust, reactivity, and impulsivity place major roadblocks in their lives and in their relationships.
Originally published as Integrative Parenting, this expanded and updated guide for parents provides strategies that weave together the science of attachment, trauma, neurobiology, and child development. The methods presented in this book empower parents as agents for change through a deeper understanding of even the most bewildering behaviors. Here readers will find tools to build trust, calm impulsivity and reactivity, and improve children's ability to think and communicate. Traumatized kids and their parents deserve a chance for a better future together—with this book, parents can pave the way.

Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP, specializes in treating trauma and attachment problems in adults, children, and families. She is an EMDR Institute facilitator and EMDRIA-approved consultant, as well as cofounder of the Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska.