Stephanie Garde
Posted in Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment, Uncategorized
Resource Database Interest Form
Are you a trauma-informed, attachment focused professional interested in a listing in our new Resource Directory?
Complete this form and we will contact you for detailed information in the coming weeks, once the directory construction is complete.
We are grateful to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for funding the development of this online directory.…
Guest Author
Posted in Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment
Mental Health Awareness Month
Every May, advocacy organizations such as Mental Health America come together to raise awareness around needs related to mental health. These needs have increased during the coronavirus pandemic. Now that we have entered the month of June, we should reflect on the lessons learned during Mental Health Awareness Month so we can better support and advocate for mental health awareness all year long,
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Laura Dennis
Posted in Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed ATN board member Janyne McConnaughey’s first book, Brave, A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, reviewed here in June 2018, I had looked forward to immersing myself in her second, Jeannie’s Brave Childhood: Behavior and Healing Through the Lens of Attachment and Trauma.
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Guest Author
Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Therapies
Hello! It’s Dena again. In my last post, I shared how our Disney trip last summer was quite therapeutic for us as a family, especially when looking through the eyes of Theraplay®. In this follow-up post, I will look at Theraplay® dimensions of engagement,
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Guest Author
Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Therapies
Have extraordinary experiences
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Dena and I’m a parent of two children, now adults, through adoption. I originally started writing this whilst on vacation at Disney World in Florida last summer, but today I sit in my kitchen reflecting on our vacation and why it was such a memorable time.
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Posted in Our Voices, Therapies
Mental health problems should be thought of no differently than physical health problems. In fact, they are related: mental health problems affect physical health and physical health problems affect mental health.
Laura Dennis
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapies, Trauma
Winter break always gets me to thinking, and this time it has me pondering the implications of raising a child diagnosed with RAD. I don’t know if all the things I have done to help my child will bear long-term fruit for him, but I am increasingly aware of just how much they have done for me.
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment
As a trauma and emotion-centered psychotherapist, I am relieved that children are now being screened for toxic stress. Thinking about mental health as a byproduct of a child’s environment is an important addition to current thinking on how to improve children’s wellbeing. Rushing to diagnose a child with a potentially stigmatizing label,
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment
Richard, a former patient of mine,* used to bully kids when he was in high school. When I asked him to share what bullying felt like, he told me intimidating kids was the only time he felt powerful and strong. His father beat him. He showed the world his tough side,
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Guest Author
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Therapies, Trauma
–by Susan Ward, LPC
Note from the blog manager: this is the promised and long-overdue follow-up to Susan’s popular post, What Therapists Want Parents to Know. Thank you to both Susan and our readers for your patience!
As the parent of a child with trauma and attachment issues,
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