Gentling A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children
Gentling A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children by William E. Krill, published by Loving Healing Press in August 2009, offers a new therapeutic approach for children who have experienced various forms of abuse and developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This first edition spans 225 pages and presents a framework that redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying specific behavioral signs and providing individualized treatment strategies. The book is designed to be accessible for clinicians, parents, foster parents, teachers, and caregivers, enabling them to facilitate effective healing for affected children.
Readers will find practical techniques and tools within this guide, including the Child Stress Profile (CSP) for measuring therapeutic outcomes and managing stress episodes. The text emphasizes the importance of understanding each child’s unique symptom profile and offers easy-to-learn methods that can be implemented in various caregiving settings. With a focus on child-specific signs of PTSD and gentle treatment approaches, this book serves as a valuable resource for those involved in the care and recovery of abused children.
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Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery
“Gentling” represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result. This text redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying child-specific behavioral signs commonly seen, and offers a means to individualize treatment and measure therapeutic outcomes through understanding each suffering child’s unique symptom profile. The practical and easily understood Gentling approaches and techniques can be easily learned by clinicians, parents, foster parents, teachers and all other care givers of these children to effect real and lasting healing. With this book, you will: Learn child-specific signs of PTSD in abused children Learn how to manage the often intense reactivity seen in stress episodes Gain the practical, gentle, and effective treatment tools that really help these children Use the Child Stress Profile (CSP) to guide treatment and measure outcomes Deploy handy ‘Quick Teach Sheets’ that can be copied and handed to foster parents, teachers, and social workers
Clinicians Acclaim for “Gentling”
“In this world where children are often disenfranchised in trauma care–and all too often treated with the same techniques as adults–Krill makes a compelling case for how to adapt proven post-trauma treatment to the world of a child.”
–Michele Rosenthal, HealMyPTSD.com
“Congratulations to Krill when he says that ‘being gentle’ cannot be over-emphasized in work with the abused.”
–Andrew D. Gibson, PhD Author of “Got an Angry Kid? Parenting Spike, A Seriously Difficult Child”
“William Krill’s book is greatly needed. PTSD is the most common aftermath of child abuse and often domestic abuse as well. There is a critical scarcity of mental-health professionals who know how to recognize child abuse, let alone treat it.”
–Fr. Heyward B. Ewart, III, Ph.D., St. James the Elder Theological Seminary, author of “AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse”
Cover photo by W.A. Krill/ Fighting Chance Photography
Learn more at www.Gentling.org
From the New Horizons in Therapy Series at Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com
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