Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma

Helping children and adolescents who have experienced trauma to feel safe and confident enough to talk, let alone engage in therapeutic work, can be full of challenges - for children and for adults. Conversation-Starters For Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma aims to make this process easier for practitioners, by offering gentle, playful techniques to help children who are closed or withdrawn to start to open up.  

 Many children who have experienced serious trauma are withdrawn and closed off, making it difficult to engage with them in therapy effectively. This book offers a compendium of therapeutic activities that will help children who have endured painful abuse to open up, so that they can learn to express their feelings and therapy can be directed towards their individual needs.  

This book is intended for lawyers, legal associations, and law students to provide a touchstone for health and well-being as well as insight into secondary trauma and other mental health concerns that may arise within legal practice.

Readers will be introduced to concepts of health and will be provided with tools to measure personal well-being and to help create, motivate, and sustain well-being. Readers will also learn about the outcomes of pressure and stress in the legal profession through case studies and literature reviews.

This book provides additional tools to create, motivate and sustain well-being. The reader will be introduced to new, practical hands-on and cognitive exercises which will strengthen coping skills and build resiliency. While the practice of law can be a very gratifying career, it can also be very stressful. Sometimes, even traumatic, given all the negative and upsetting experiences and events attorneys often witness and endure.