A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma: Creative Techniques and Activities

When you receive the book you will be amazed as it is A4, very thick and full of ideas, theories and worksheets. The book is well organised so that you can easily find the activities that support your chosen session theme. As well as the book having photocopiable worksheets it also comes with a code for a PDF download of them. I love the range of creative activities, which easily engage children. At the beginning of the book there are sections about the underlying theories and also details of how to complete and assessment. This is a book that you will find yourself going back to time and time again.

This is a great resource to use with primary-aged children who have experienced witnessed and experienced violence, interpersonal violence, and trauma. My only complaint is that copying and using the worksheets with a tightly bound book is challenging. The photocopies are messy. I would gladly pay extra for a way to print the worksheets directly or, as another reviewer mentioned, a ring-bound book would be easier.

Was drawn to this book after hearing of the launch via twitter posts. I follow the author on twitter & learn a lot from her so I decided to invest in buying this book. I was delighted to see the size of it on arrival & knew it was going to be a good one! The contents pages alone span 15 pages and give clear detail of what to find where so can be read start to end then easy to dive back into to find certain resources. I liked the balance of clear explanations of theory balanced by useful, practical activities that can be used straight away. It was definitely a good buy and this is a book you'll want your own copy of to have it on your shelf when you need it. Definitely a key book in my 'professional library' now. Love it!

This is an absolutely fantastic book and I would highly recommend. I work within behaviour support and this has provided a whole wealth of knowledge that can easily be applied to working practices. I have shared the info with other professionals, foster carers and the young people I work with. It embodies all the things I already believe about behaviour and is written in an easy to follow and apply context. I purchased on Saturday, it arrived on Sunday and by Monday it was my go to toolkit. Not only is this a Colossal A4 sized book but access is also given to a PDF of all the working documents which makes them accessible and saves the need for copying.

Useful and interesting resource book. Contains lots of ideas for working therapeutically with children and gives a good rationale for the techniques. I would have preferred the book's binding to be such that it could stay open more easily on a page. Also would have liked more explicit acknowledgement and references for where many of the ideas and theory originated from.