A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle

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Rikke Ludvigsen

A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children

The Healing Circle

Rikke Ludvigsen

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Routledge
21 June 2024

Child welfare; Counselling & advice services; Psychotherapy; Trauma & shock

This book presents “The Circle of Safety and Reconnection”, a compassionate reflection model for working with vulnerable and traumatised children and young people in a nurturing way, providing hope for post-traumatic healing and growth.

The circle is a holistic and comprehensive framework for professionals working to create safety for children against violence and abuse. It takes into consideration a child’s individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma also assessing their risk and protection factors and using different tools to regulate the nervous system and promote healing. A step-by-step guide, populated with practice examples and exercises to walk the reader through using and adapting the model in practice, the book discusses the nature, signs, and ways of trauma, the reasons for it, and the different ways of healing these wounds outside the therapeutic context. Additionally, as this field is high risk for secondary traumatisation, stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue, the author has dedicated a chapter focusing solely on the building of resilience in professionals.

This text is written for all professionals working in the field, including therapists and psychologists, social workers, educators, foster parents, nurses, day-care workers, and students.

By: Rikke Ludvigsen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032345369
ISBN 10: 1032345365
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 21 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rikke Ludvigsen is a social worker, trainer, supervisor, family consultant, and therapist trained in safety planning, EMDR, SFBT, and stabilisation of chronically traumatised children. She has worked for over 20 years with children at risk, their parents, and their networks, and has trained over 1,000 professionals over the last decade.

Reviews for A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle

‘Through A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children, Rikke Ludvigsen manages to skillfully combine research and theories around safety planning and trauma healing. The book covers topics from how you as a therapist can take care of yourself and how to understand WHY the child acts like it does, to theories about brain development and nervous system. I recommend this book to all people dealing with traumatised children and their network. This book is going to make a huge impact worldwide on trauma treatment.’ Mette Vangsøe Olsen, family therapist, Copenhagen, Denmark