eBook

Trauma Informed Teaching through Play Art Narrative

Lewis, Patrick J, Wallace, Karen O

2020

Overview

\"Trauma affects the lives of many children who we teach in school. It effects the students, teachers who teach them, the administration, and the school community as it is part of the school environment and culture. Teachers and administrators have great potential to set up an environment and adopt an attitude that can help heal the trauma in the lives of their students. Schools need to become trauma-informed to be able to provide for the growing number of refugee children who have experienced terrorism, crime, war, and abuse, to better help some Indigenous children who due to systemic racism and discriminatory policies have been traumatized and live daily with trauma, and the growing number of all children who have experienced various kinds of trauma during their life span. Trauma informed schools means that all students can feel safe enough to learn, succeed academically and thrive after having undergone a traumatic event. Trauma Infor

• Publisher: BRILL,Brill Sense
• Subject: Art therapy / Mentally ill children-Education / Post-traumatic stress disorder in children-Treatment
• ISBN: 9004432728, 9789004432734, 9789004432710, 900443271X, 9789004432727, 9004432736