Small Wonders Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR

Name: Small Wonders Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR
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ISBN: 9781416584636

ISBN-10: 1416584633

ISBN-13: 9781416584636

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Authors: Joan Lovett

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Childhood can be an exciting time, full of joyous exploration, new skills, friends, and imaginative play. It can also be very frightening, especially when children have experiences that threaten their feelings of safety and well-being. Even common traumatic childhood events can deeply affect children's normal healthy development, their self-esteem, and their families. Many behavioral problems stemming from common traumatic events could require years of psychotherapy or medication. That is, they did -- until the advent of EMDR. Developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, EMDR had already helped thousands of adult clients when Joan Lovett experienced its healing power…

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 10/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Joan Lovett, M.D.,is a behavioral pediatrician in private practice in the San Francisco Bay area. A graduate of Wellesley College and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. Lovett trained in pediatrics at Montreal Children's Hospital/McGill University and Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an EMDR Institute Facilitator and has served as a Chair of the EMDR Medical Committee.



Acknowledgments


Foreword




Understanding Trauma



"Why Am I Afraid of the Sound of Carrots Crunching?"



How I Began Using EMDR with Children



Small Wonders: The Cases



Who's Afraid of a Toilet?: Critical-Incident Trauma



"I Get Real Nervous": A Car Accident



"I Have to Get Them Out!": Head Lice



"What If? What If?": Converging Stresses



"Wasitz?": Cascades of Trauma



"I'll Love You Forever": Unresolved Grieving



Never-Ending Love Is Round: Complex, Unresolved Grieving



"I Can't Swallow It": Not Simply a Critical Incident



"I Can't Move": Somatic Symptoms



Too Scared to Think: Test-Taking Anxiety



"We Did Something Wrong": Secret Coercion, Sexual Mistreatment



Monsters Come Out at Night: Sleep Disorders


Afterword



Questions Frequently Asked About EMDR



For Parents: What to Expect When Your Child Does EMDR



Guidelines for Writing a Story for Your Child



Guidelines for Clinicians: Using Storytelling and EMDR to Treat Young Children for Critical-Incident Trauma



EMDR Resources


References


Bibliography


Index