Table of Contents

Preface to the Classic Edition

Part 1: Therapist Guide for Use of Trauma- Related Therapy Stories

1. Overview: Impact of Trauma on Child Development and Caregiving Behavior
2. Using Narrative, Metaphor, and Trauma-Focused Stories in Trauma Intervention

Part 2: Therapy Stories to Use with Children

3. Psychoeducation
4. Relaxation
5. Affect Identifi cation and Expression
6. Cognitive Coping
7. Trauma Narrative Work
8. In Vivo Exposure
9. Conjoint Parent–Child Work and Attachment Issues

10. Ensuring Future Safety and Wellbeing

Part 3: Therapy Stories to Use with Adolescents

11. Psychoeducation

12. Affect Identifi cation and Expression

13. Cognitive Coping

14. Trauma Narrative

15. Conjoint Parent–Child Work and Attachment Issues

16. Enhancing Future Safety and Wellbeing

Part 4: Therapy Stories to Use with Caregivers

17. Adult Issues and Blind Spots

18. Parenting Issues

Part 5: Child’s Guide to Trauma

19. Introduction for the Child Reader

20. The Impact of Abuse

21. Freak Out (Vigilance)

22. Freeze or High Emotion (Alarm)

23. Flight (Escape)

24. Fight (Terror)

25. Abuse and Trauma

26. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Trauma

27. How Stress Affects Kids

28. Memory of Abuse

29. How Adults Can Help (or Hurt) Abused Kids

30. The Trauma Chain Reaction: Freak Out

31. The Trauma Chain Reaction: Freeze

32. The Trauma Chain Reaction: Flight

33. The Trauma Chain Reaction: Fight

34. Your Own Chain Reaction

35. What Does Your Brain Have to Do With It?

36. How Stress Changes Your Brain

37. Coping Skills: Calm Down

38. Coping Skills: Connect

39. Coping Skills: Conquer

Part 6: Caregiver’s Guide to Trauma

40. The Impact of Trauma on Development

41. Neurobiology and Trauma

42. Caregiver Stress and Self-Care Appendices