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Summary
Summary
Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what posttraumatic play looks like and how it can foster resilience and coping. Demonstrated are applications of play, art, and other expressive therapies with children who have faced such overwhelming experiences as sexual abuse or chronic neglect. The contributors discuss ways to facilitate forms of expression that promote mastery and growth, as well as how to intervene when play becomes stuck in destructive patterns. They share effective strategies for engaging hard-to-reach children and building trusting therapeutic relationships.
Author Notes
Eliana Gil, PhD, is founding partner of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education, a private group practice in Fairfax, Virginia. She is also Director of Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy. Dr. Gil has worked in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment since 1973. A licensed marriage, family, and child counselor; an approved marriage and family therapy supervisor; a registered art therapist; and a registered play therapy supervisor, she is a former President of the Association for Play Therapy, which honored her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of The Healing Power of Play , Helping Abused and Traumatized Children , and Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition , among many other publications. Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, Dr. Gil is bilingual and bicultural.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 The Extent of the Problem and its Impact | |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 A Review of Current Research on the Incidence and Prevalence of Interpersonal Childhood Trauma | p. 12 |
| Chapter 3 The Role of Healthy Relational Interactions in Buffering the Impact of Childhood Trauma | p. 26 |
| Chapter 4 Children's Self-Initiated Gradual Exposure: The Wonders of Posttraumatic Play and Behavioral Reenactments | p. 44 |
| Part 2 Clinical Responses | |
| Chapter 5 Silent Grieving in a World without Words: A Child Witnesses His Brother's Murder | p. 67 |
| Chapter 6 The Owner of a Broken Heart: The Cumulative Trauma of Surgery and Sexual Abuse | p. 92 |
| Chapter 7 A Hero's Journey: A Boy Who Lost His Parents and Found Himself | p. 117 |
| Chapter 8 A Tornado Disrupts the Wedding, to the Relief of the Unwilling Bride: A Girl's Quest for Healing after Sexual Abuse | p. 149 |
| Chapter 9 Finding the Treasure Within: Spontaneous Storytelling and the Sandplay Journey of an Emotionally Despairing Girl | p. 171 |
| Chapter 10 "Stitches Are Stronger Than Glue": A Child Directs the Healing of Her Shattered Heart | p. 200 |
| Chapter 11 Manny's Story: A Soul Ascending | p. 220 |
| Chapter 12 "I Am an Artist": A Sexually Traumatized Girl's Self-Portraits in Paint and Clay | p. 240 |
| Chapter 13 The Gift of Time: Helping to Heal through Long-Term Treatment Involving Complex Trauma and Cultural Issues | p. 263 |
| Chapter 14 "This Mommy Has No Milk!": A Neglected Child's Adaptation to Loss and Hunger | p. 288 |
| Chapter 15 Play and the Transformation of Feeling: Niki's Case | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 327 |
