Trauma Informed Treatment: The Restorative Approach
Book Description
Author Patricia Wilcox has written the essential guide to trauma-informed care with at-risk youth. Wilcox provides a foundational understanding of trauma’s impact on the developing brain, then details its implications for treatment, the promotion of pro-social behaviors, and improving the culture among clients and staff. Incorporating the key concepts of compassionate understanding, validation, skill teaching, and the primacy of trustworthy relationships for healing trauma and rebuilding connections in the child’s brain, Wilcox tackles some of the most difficult challenges in treatment settings with practical approaches grounded in theory and research. This book is an invaluable resource for parents, social workers, childcare staff, therapists, agency administrators, and anyone who cares about how kids are treated when they need skillful, trauma-informed care.
NOTE: Purchasing Continuing Education Credits for this book does not provide a copy of the book, itself, which can be purchased from NEARI Press at: http://bookstore.nearipress.org/index.php/trauma-informed-treatment-the-restorative-approach.html
Editor Biography
Patricia D. Wilcox, LCSW is Vice President of Strategic Development for Klingberg Family Centers in Connecticut, which specializes in treatment of traumatized children and their families. She created the Restorative Approach, a trauma- and relationship-based treatment method. She is a Faculty Trainer for Risking Connection and an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. She travels nationally to train treaters on trauma-informed care, specializing in improving the daily life of treatment programs. In 2011, she was named Connecticut Social Worker of the Year.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Identify what current, empirically-based, guidelines recommend as “best practice” for individuals working with children through a trauma-informed lens.
- Describe how trauma impacts the developing brain of youth and the importance of trauma-informed care.
- Apply restorative approaches to promote pro-social behaviors, and improve the culture among clients and staff.
- Discuss and critically consider incorporating the key concepts of compassionate understanding, validation, skill teaching, and the primacy of trustworthy relationships for healing trauma and rebuilding connections in the at-risk youth’s brain.
