Creating Trauma-Informed Schools

Creating Trauma-Informed Schools

A Guide for School Social Workers and Educators

Eileen A. Dombo, Christine Anlauf Sabatino

Children in all educational levels are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, bullying, violence in their homes and neighborhoods, and other traumatic life events; research shows that upwards of 70% of children in schools report experiencing at least one traumatic event before age 16. Though school social workers are on the front lines of service delivery through their work with children who face social and emotional struggles in the pursuit of education, there are scant resources to assist them in the creation of trauma-informed schools. This book presents an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents, as well as interventions for direct practice and collaboration with teachers, families, and communities. Social work practitioners and students will learn distinct examples of how to implement the ten principles of trauma-informed services in their schools; provide students with trauma-informed care that is grounded in the principles of safety, connection, and emotional regulation; and develop beneficial skills for self-care in their work.

Moving Beyond Assessment

A practical guide for beginning helping professionals

Melissa D. Grady, Eileen A. Dombo

Moving Beyond Assessment: A Practical Guide for Beginning Helping Professionals is a text designed to help beginning professionals from social work, nursing, psychology, counseling, and other related disciplines navigate the early stages of working with clients in a variety of settings. The authors are experienced clinicians, supervisors, and professors who have trained hundreds of graduate students to learn how to assess, intervene, and evaluate their work with clients. In addition to the direct practice focus of the book, the authors address issues such as self-care, the basics of neurobiology, working with multi-disciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, and supervision. The text has a user-friendly tone and the authors have included numerous practice vignettes and their own personal and professional experiences to exhibit how the content can be applied to real life settings. Beginning practitioners will find tips, tools, resources, and concrete examples they can use to enhance their work with clients and normalize their experiences in the helping field, while learning how to take care of themselves as professionals. This text is an essential guide for anyone who is seeking to become a helping professional.

Testing the Effects of a Feminist-cognitive-relational Social Work Intervention on Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Evaluating Adaptive Behaviors

Eileen A. Dombo

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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Fourth Edition

A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment

Russell A. Barkley

"This edition strives to extract from the mine of available scientific literature those nuggets of clinically important information regarding the nature, assessment, diagnosis, and management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. The revised and expanded fourth edition of this user-friendly workbook provides a master set of the assessment and treatment forms, questionnaires, and handouts. Formatted for easy photocopying, many of these materials are available from no other source. Featured are interview forms and rating scales for use with parents, teachers, and adult clients; helpful checklists and fact sheets; daily school report cards for monitoring academic progress; and more"--

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning — essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid “cognitive errors” and make better choices in all aspects of their lives. Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it? Or continued doing something you knew was bad for you? These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better decisions. Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision-making—work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.

Becoming Visible

Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan

Beth A. Firestein

Becoming Visible offers cutting-edge psychological perspectives on bisexual and queer identities and the cultural and mental health issues facing bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, and questioning individuals and their partners. Essential for any professional seeking to provide "best practice" services to this population, Becoming Visible addresses the therapeutic needs of bisexuals at every stage of the life cycle. This volume explores why some people resist identity labels and what bisexual men and women consider exemplary and harmful in their therapeutic experiences. It also helps practitioners distinguish between the stresses brought on by being part of a sexual minority and the clinical symptoms that indicate serious mental health issues. It includes research on ethnic minority bisexuals, youth, elders, gender-variant individuals, and bisexuals engaging in alternative lifestyles and sexual practices such as polyamory and BDSM. Edited by a psychologist who specializes in sexual-orientation and gender-identity issues and with contributions from scholars and professionals from multiple disciplines, the book embraces perspectives from the empirical to the phenomenological, and outlines both scientific and practice-based approaches to the subject while carefully considering the psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the issues confronting bisexual men and women. Becoming Visible is a crucial step in the improved mental health and well-being of bisexuals, transgender individuals, and other sexual minorities. This book offers a path toward awareness and compassion for those who seek to understand, treat, and empower this underserved and frequently misunderstood group of mental health clients.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Basics and Beyond

Judith S. Beck

Hundreds of thousands of clinicians and graduate students have relied on this text--now significantly revised with more than 50% new material--to learn the fundamentals of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Leading expert Judith S. Beck demonstrates how to engage patients, develop a sound case conceptualization, plan individualized treatment, structure sessions, and implement core cognitive, behavioral, and experiential techniques. Throughout the book, extended cases of one client with severe depression and another with depression, anxiety, and borderline personality traits illustrate how a skilled therapist delivers CBT and troubleshoots common difficulties. Adding to the third edition's utility, the companion website features downloadable worksheets and videos of therapy sessions. New to This Edition Chapter on the therapeutic relationship. Chapter on integrating mindfulness into treatment. Presents recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R)--which emphasizes clients’ aspirations, values, and positive adaptation--alongside traditional CBT. Pedagogical features: clinical tips, reflection questions, practice exercises, and videos at the companion website. New case examples featuring clients with more complex problems. Demonstrates how to integrate strategies from other modalities, such as acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. See also Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Serious Mental Health Conditions, by Aaron T. Beck, Paul Grant, Ellen Inverso, Aaron P. Brinen, and Dimitri Perivoliotis, the authoritative presentation of the cutting-edge CT-R approach.

Devil in the Grove

Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.

The Developing Mind, Second Edition

How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Daniel J. Siegel

This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for over 100,000 readers. Daniel J. Siegel goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. He presents a groundbreaking new way of thinking about the emergence of the human mind and the process by which each of us becomes a feeling, thinking, remembering individual. Illuminating how and why neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in promoting healthy development and resilience. Professors praise the book’s utility in courses from developmental psychology and child development to neuroscience and counseling. New to This Edition *Incorporates significant scientific and technical advances. *Expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, including neuroplasticity, epigenetics, mindfulness, and the neural correlates of consciousness. *Useful pedagogical features: pull-outs, diagrams, and a glossary. *Epilogue on domains of integration--specific pathways to well-being and therapeutic change.

Creating Trauma-informed Schools

A Guide for School Social Workers and Educators

Associate Professor Eileen A Dombo, Christine Anlauf Sabatino

Children in all educational levels are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, bullying, violence in their homes and neighborhoods, and other traumatic life events; research shows that upwards of 70% of children in schools report experiencing at least one traumatic event before age 16. Though school social workers are on the front lines of service delivery through their work with children who face social and emotional struggles in the pursuit of education, there are scant resources to assist them in the creation of trauma-informed schools. This book presents an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents, in addition to interventions for direct practice and collaboration with teachers, families, and communities. Social work practitioners and students will learn distinct examples of how to implement the ten principles of trauma-informed services in their schools; provide students with trauma-informed care that is grounded in the principles of safety, connection, and emotional regulation; and develop beneficial skills for self-care in their work.

Creating Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Classrooms

Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students' Healing, Growth, and Learning

Tom Brunzell, Jacolyn Norrish

This accessible guide advises teachers on creating classroom environments that promote healing and growth for all students, particularly the most vulnerable. Grounded not only in trauma-informed education but in positive psychology, this book helps teachers to set up the most vulnerable students to heal from trauma, build resilience and fulfil their full academic potential.

Hand in Hand

A Manual for Creating Trauma-informed Leadership Committees

Gerald L. Cox, Kimberly F. Arnold, Theresa R. Kummer, Deanne K. McCullough, Amanda E. Settle

Hand in hand: a manual for creating trauma-informed leadership committees arose from a problem experienced by many schools -- an abundance of struggling students coupled with a scarcity of mental health resources. This manual grew out of the passion of a clinical psychologist, two former special education teachers, a behavior specialist, and a public school principal to create strong trauma-informed leadership teams within their districts. Following the clear, easy-to-implement guidelines found in this manual, school leaders across the country now have a realistic, practical, and :nuts-and-bolts" guide to moving schools from just surviving to thriving!

Building Trauma-sensitive Schools

Your Guide to Creating Safe, Supportive Learning Environments for All Students

Jen Alexander

"Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools is a practical, accessible guide to building learning environments that ensure safety, develop regulation skills, and grow caring relationships for all students, including those who have experienced trauma"--

Trauma-Sensitive Instruction

Creating a Safe and Predictable Classroom Environment (Strategies to Support Trauma-Impacted Students and Create a Positive Classroom Environment)

John F. Eller, Tom Hierck

The impact of trauma on learning can be significant and long lasting. Learn how you can confidently and meaningfully support your trauma-impacted students and foster trauma-informed schools with this accessible resource. The authors draw from their personal and professional experiences with trauma, mental health, and school culture to provide real insight into what you can do now to help learners build resilience, cope with adverse situations, and achieve at high levels. Implement trauma-informed teaching practices and cultivate a classroom environment that encourages positive learning experiences: Understand childhood trauma and the impact traumatic experiences have on learners. Develop a trauma-informed attitude and mindset. Examine classroom structures that support trauma-sensitive practices while recognizing those that may contribute to trauma. Gain effective classroom management strategies and techniques to support all students, including those experiencing trauma. Learn how to develop trusting and positive relationships with trauma-impacted students and their families. Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: The Impact of Trauma on Educators and Students Chapter 2: The Importance of Attitude and Mindset in Working With Trauma Chapter 3: Classroom Structures to Support Trauma-Sensitive Practices Chapter 4: Positive Relationships With Students Chapter 5: Trauma-Sensitive Classroom Management Strategies and Techniques Chapter 6: Parent and Family Engagement References and Resources Index

Trauma-Sensitive Instruction

Creating a Safe and Predictable Classroom Environment (Strategies to Support Trauma-Impacted Students and Create a Positive Classroom Environment)

John F. Eller, Tom Hierck

"Students impacted by trauma face behavioral and mental health challenges, which, if not addressed, have long-lasting impacts. In Trauma-Sensitive Instruction: Creating a Safe and Predictable Classroom Environment, authors John F. Eller and Tom Hierck emphasize the importance of creating safe classrooms where students build resilience to cope with and handle traumatic experiences. This book helps readers understand the impact of trauma and develop a trauma-sensitive mindset that champions the idea that all students can learn at high levels and be successful. Educators at every level will examine practical, research-based strategies they can implement to support students in building positive behavior management and learning experiences"--