Table Of ContentChildren and Adolescents in Trauma
Community, Culture and Change
Series editors: Rex Haigh and Jan Lees
Community, Culture and Change encompasses a wide range of ideas and
theoreticalmodelsrelatedtocommunitiesandculturesasawhole,embracing
key Therapeutic Community concepts such as collective responsibility,
citizenship and empowerment, as well as multidisciplinary ways of working
andthesocialoriginsofdistress.Thewaysinwhichoursocialandtherapeutic
worlds are changing are illustrated by the innovative and creative work
describedinthesebooks.
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TheoryandPractice
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DynamicSecurity
TheDemocraticTherapeuticCommunityinPrison
EditedbyMichaelParker
ISBN9781843103851
SettingUpNewServicesintheNHS
‘JustAddWater!’
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ISBN9781843101628
Bythesameeditor
PromotingtheEmotionalWellBeingof Children
andAdolescentsandPreventingTheirMentalIllHealth
AHandbook
EditedbyKedarNathDwivediandPeterBrinleyHarper
ForewordbyCarolineLindsey
ISBN9781843101536
MeetingtheNeedsofEthnicMinorityChildren–IncludingRefugee,
BlackandMixedParentageChildren
AHandbookforProfessionals
EditedbyKedarNathDwivedi
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GroupWorkwithChildrenandAdolescents
AHandbook
EditedbyDrKedarNathDwivedi
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ISBN9781853021572
Children and Adolescents
in Trauma
Creative Therapeutic Approaches
Edited by Chris Nicholson,
Michael Irwin and Kedar Nath Dwivedi
Foreword by Peter Wilson
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This book is dedicated to Terry and Jane
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so many children and young people.
Acknowledgements
InslightlydifferentversionsThe‘Rights’of Passage,andCreatingtheSelf through
SelfHarmwerepublishedinTheInternationalJournalofTherapeuticCommunities,
volume25.No1.Spring2004. NoMoreGhostsappearedinthesamejournal,
volume27.No3.Autumn2006.
WewouldliketoexpressourthankstoCarcanetPress,andinparticular,to
Michael Schimdt, for their kind permission to print two poems by Robert
Graves,‘TheCastle’infullandeightlinesfrom‘NoMoreGhosts’. Theseare
taken from Robert Graves: The Complete Poems in One Volume (1995 – 1999)
editedbyBerylGravesandDunstanWard.
Exerts and quotations from Margery Williams (2005), The Velveteen
Rabbit,orHowToysBecomeReal,areusedcourtesyofEgmontPress.
Contents
FOREWORD 11
PeterWilson,ConsultantChildPsychotherapistandformer
Directorof YoungMinds,London
PREFACE 14
ChrisNicholson,Lecturer,CentreforPsychoanalyticStudies,
Universityof Essex
INTRODUCTION 17
MichaelIrwin,Professorof EnglishLiterature,University
of Kent,andKedarNathDwivedi,ChildandAdolescent
Psychiatrist,London
Part I Trauma
1 Approaching Trauma 29
ChrisNicholson
2 No More Ghosts: The Exorcism of Traumatic 41
Memory in Children and Adolescents
ChrisNicholson
3 Making Sense of Marnie: Neurology, Film and Trauma 63
DianeCook,Surrey
4 Art, Science and Innovation in the Treatment 79
of Early Trauma
DianeCook
Part II Story
5 Early Trauma and TheVelveteenRabbitor How 101
Children Become Real: Long-Term Prognosis
and Therapeutic Intervention
ChristineBradley,ChildPsychotherapist,Folkstone,Kent
6 The Therapeutic Use of Stories 115
KedarNathDwivedi
Part III Self-Harm
7 The ‘Rights’ of Passage: Initiation Rites
and Self-Harm in Adolescents 131
ChrisNicholson
8 Creating the Self through Self-Harm 145
ChrisNicholson
Part IV Art Therapy
9 Melting Muddy Mixtures: An Exploration of the Art 161
Psychotherapy Process with an Adolescent Boy
in a Therapeutic Community
JacquelineMarshall-Tierney,ArtPsychotherapist
10 Being Speechless: Art Therapy with 180
Self-Harming Adolescents
JaneSaotome,ArtTherapist,Surrey
Part V Violence
11 From Reaction to Reflection: Childhood Violence: 199
Roots and Resolution
TerryBruce,RetiredChildandAdolescentPsychiatrist,
Bearsted,Kent
12 Dear Little Monsters: Attachment, Adolescence 217
and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
ChrisNicholson
Conclusion
13 When the Crying Stops 237
ChrisNicholson,MichaelIrwinandKedarNathDwivedi
THECONTRIBUTORS 243
SUBJECTINDEX 245
AUTHORINDEX 249
Description:Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative me
