Description
What parents, educators, and health professionals can do to recognize, prevent, and heal childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—by the author of Waking the Tiger
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents like auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce, or even falling off a bicycle. At the core of this book is the understanding of how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit—often resulting in anxiety, nightmares, depression, physical illnesses, addictions, hyperactivity, and aggression.
Rich with case studies and hands-on activities, Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes gives insight into children’s innate ability to rebound with the appropriate support, and provides their caregivers with tools to overcome and prevent trauma.
“Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes . . . creates its own mold in a way that everyone concerned with the health and happiness of children will be grateful for.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author of Hold On to Your Kids
R. Alexander (verified owner) –
Maggie Kline & Peter Levine have done an outstanding job addressing the unique ways trauma and its concomitant healing effects the lives of young people. With the subject of trauma’s recent surge in popularity, a book devoted exclusively to trauma “through a child’s eyes” is an exciting and much needed addition. This extensive & comprehensive look at trauma, its prevention and its healing, will be welcome by parents, teachers, physicians, and all of us interested in helping heal our beautiful & fragile planet.
Margaret Halstead (verified owner) –
Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes does what it says it will do. It awakens “the ordinary miracle of healing.” As a therapist, I have read countless theory and/or practice books. I have found myself either drowning in theory or bored by an author’s list of do’s and don’t’s. This book is refreshingly different. It is wisdom writ large.
As I read, I am drawn into a place of understanding:
-the body’s natural tendency to protect itself
-a child’s extraordinary ability to react to, renegotiate, and heal from traumatic events
-the responsibility we all have to respond intelligently and effectively to the trauma so prevalent in our world.
As I read, I am drawn into a place of hope:
-that we all have access to resilience
-that our children can thrive
-that there is a way to help that does “no harm.’
I highly recommend this book for professionals, parents, anyone interested in the “miracle of healing.” It is intelligently and compassionately written by two extraordinary professionals who are clearly more interested in healing trauma than in their own renown. I have recommended Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes to clients, colleagues, friends and family and I recommend it unequivocally to you!
SWood (verified owner) –
This book is a remarkable resource of information for anyone who has any experience or contact with children. It is not a heady read. Completely and utterly accessible to those who have no formal training in psychology (yet still riveting for those who do), it has many step-by-step guides (creative, physical, and emotional) for dealing with and assisting children through a myriad of life’s trials and traumas, including random falls and accidents, loss of a pet, abuse, death, & bullying to name a few. This book also offers numerous skill-building guides to help a child develop their senses, mindfulness, awareness and boundaries, and several basic cases are presented of children they have come in contact with over the years with various presenting problems. Terribly informative, moving, healing, thought provoking and profoundly educational, this book will be one you’ll recommend again and again. Not said tongue in cheek, if you were ever a child, you need to read this book.
Annie M. (verified owner) –
This book offers clear explanations to the nature of trauma and how it affects the body–and subsequently, the emotions and perceptions and behavior–and how to prevent an overwhelming event from BECOMING traumatic for the long term. It is filled with doable and clear exercises, and helps demystify the concept of what trauma is, why things are traumatic, how to prevent trauma, the incidious way that traumatic events can impact later sensations and perceptions, and how to help heal those. A book by a leading figure in the field of trauma and the body, Peter Levine is a master.
Wonderfully clarifying for anyone who works with children–be it traumatized children or children who are exposed to ‘normal’ occasional overwhelming events such as falling of a bike–and to anyone who works with parents of children.
Highly recommended.
Robert Gonzalez (verified owner) –
This is the best book in my library! I keep it next to me and reference it frequently. I have given 5 of them to family and friends with children. It is a bible for dealing with children who have been affected by trauma. Truly comprehensive, it provides a sensible protocol for understanding and healing trauma. Pre and peri natal issues are addressed as well. A must have for parents. Peter Levine and Maggie Kline have created a book for the ages.
A. (verified owner) –
As an educator this book was extremely valuable in many ways. One of these ways was that it gave me insight into a child’s brain that has experienced trauma. This book also taught me how to recognize the signs of a child experiencing trauma and how to assist ALL my students to move past and become unstuck from everyday to severe traumas. This book should be a must for anyone teaching children. If I had one wish I would wish the school system would tone down performance based learning and get the core of why a child thinks and acts the way they do. This book is invaluable.
M. Mcauley (verified owner) –
This is a excelent and interesting book. I’ve gained a lot of good ideas for both my children and myself. It is a little long winded but I suppose healing trauma is a process not for those(often like myself)seeking instant gratification.
Gisela (verified owner) –
This is an extraordinary tool to help us to care about our children in everyday’s life and happenings. It’s great to know what can cause them any harm of trauma and how to prevent it or help them to heal it. It can help you also to understand your own fears and deal with them. Don’t miss it!!!
Amanda C. Mills (verified owner) –
Peter is an expert, enjoyed many others of his work. This is no exception.
Gabriela Simpson (verified owner) –
Very interesting book that every parent should read. It describes shocking facts that not too many people even can imagine could happen on this earth.
Lynette (verified owner) –
This book has been immensely helpful for providing information about helping a child process through trauma and be set free from the bondage of the trauma experience. I am a therapist that works with children with serious traumatic histories and are in fact still in these traumatic environments. I recommend this book for anyone who needs valuable information on how to help these children.
Firecat (verified owner) –
This book is really a great resource for understanding and working with traumatized children. I highly recommend this purchase to caregivers, parents and professionals.
Nikos Kalogeropoulos (verified owner) –
Parents are doing a crime if they do not read this book!! Simple common sense stuff which open your minds eye to preventing trauma in your children!!
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
It is very useful book regarding how to deal with children trauma, which include medical procedures, fall downs and other minor situations. It contains detailed description of essential steps.
Tracy (verified owner) –
This book helped me understand what may be going on with a troubled teenager that I am concerned about. I shared it with the girl’s grandmother and she also found it very helpful. It specifically helps one understand the types of trauma that can affect a child and how unresolved trauma can have a major impact on the behavior of a person well into adulthood. Although it helped me understand the situation, I don’t think it provided enough guidance to me of how to help a person or interact with a person who has been deeply affected by trauma.
Ronald B. (verified owner) –
This work is clear and concise, minimizing esoteric technical jargon making it easy for the average reader to take in. The expansive bibliography will allow the individual to dig as deep as they would like. For many, I suspect, this will become a workbook to help expand the sorting out process of dealing with personal trauma. Dr. Levine’s contributions over time have been greatly appreciated by many, to that I add my voice.
Penn Name (verified owner) –
Peter Levine is amazing. As a therapist and also a trauma survivor, his work and books help me feel more hopeful about healing. I like his somatic approach.
TYKo (verified owner) –
Apart from the insights from a scientific point of view, this book has also generously demonstrated techniques that a therapist can use and apply in younger group of clients. Also has covered huge amount of types of trauma that could be encountered by a person in daily life. Highly recommended for therapists working in the area of trauma healing.
Jack G. (verified owner) –
Book in great condition – Good price Thanks
Carol A. Righton (verified owner) –
Very helpful with gaining knowledge about how early trauma can occur (in utero) and how this impacts a child’s life. Signs of trauma in infants are described so one knows what he/she is observing. Various aged children’s lives are cited describing the nature of their specific traumatic experiences and how each was addressed therapeutically.
robin1 (verified owner) –
Very helpful, even though a little difficult for me to follow. I had to read some sections twice, but the information & suggestions were very helpful.
Megan E. Canale (verified owner) –
Peter Levine is one of the leading gurus on Trauma and I am beyond ecstatic he has written a book directed specifically at children! Once again he fills you with insight and knowledge that is essential in hellping children overcome their trauma.
Sharon Johnson (verified owner) –
So informative highly recommend for anyone working with children adolescents
Stacey (verified owner) –
A wonderful read that is easy to follow and understand. Very similar to other books he has written.
Charlotte Peters Rock (verified owner) –
Arrived just in time. As described. Thanks.
Tammy S. (verified owner) –
I had read a review that said anyone who had ever been a child should read this book. I thoroughly agree. I felt the information it contains was repeated quite a bit–that the book could have been more concise. But it is no way less important for the insights it contains for that “flaw.” Highly recommended.
nooner (verified owner) –
Fantastic book! Peter Levine and Maggie Kline did a wonderfully with putting this book out there. It’s so well written and very accessible. I have a few of Peter Levine’s book and this is by far one of my favorites. I love how many real life examples it includes to bring the ideas home. It’s well balanced between science, cases, and exercises making it a book for practitioners, pediatricians, parents, educators, and other adults that would like to understand trauma better and know how to help their children’s nervous system recover to reduce the impact of trauma. Thanks again Levine and Kline!
KM (verified owner) –
Great book. A must read for any parent. Well written, intelligent, easy to understand, and fantastic advice. Will help you understand trauma and how to help.
JGL (verified owner) –
A good overall picture for professionals.
npotter5 (verified owner) –
Wonderful!
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
Levine is one of my favorites, ever since I used his Waking the Tiger as a text when in grad school
Sharon B. Danziger (verified owner) –
Came by mail rapidly. Great Book Great Author
Rocío (verified owner) –
Excellent point of view
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
A very interesting and helpful book to recognize and avoid situations that may traumatize a person, specially children of course. It is also a self help book to recognize, understand and get rid of certain patterns repeated in our own life without knowing where they came from.
Sue Lane (verified owner) –
Very informative book, easy to read.
rachael allen (verified owner) –
recommended to all social workers to help them understand the trauma that children experience things in their life that can help us as professionals understand how moving a foster child from one home to another can effect them in more ways than one and we sometimes do not understand that what we think is helping to keep them safe is actually causing them more pain and grief
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
This is such an enlightening and interesting subject, and Peter Levine masters it and translates the research and data into very readable and engaging language. Helpful for anyone is contact with kids- from teachers, to therapists, and of course parents. Great book.
rita simmersbach (verified owner) –
Most interesting
Natasha Michaud (verified owner) –
Filled with a wonderful amount of amazing information.
Karen Tobin (verified owner) –
Very interesting and insightful book. It’s fascinating to see trauma through a child’s eyes as I did and to gain a greater understanding of what was happening to me & what still affects me today.
JMB (verified owner) –
This book is mind-blowing!!!!!!! A must-have if you work with children and/or adolescents clinically, or in a variety of other capacities.
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
Arrived very quickly!! Item is as described.
GG (verified owner) –
Amazing book!
Honey (verified owner) –
This book was highly recommended to me by a friend. Although I did not read most of it, what I have read already is very good! I’m sure that it is a great book as my friend said…Her words exactly where, “It’s a must have”!
Lori (verified owner) –
Good book
Susan L. Levy, D.C. (verified owner) –
Authors Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline book, “Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes” brilliantly explains how trauma impacts children in clearly understood terms and gives readers insights about how they can minimize the effects. I greatly appreciated the numerous case-studies Levine and Kline document and the hands-on activities that they recommend. I include “Trauma Through a Childs Eyes” in the suggested reading section of Chapter 13: Optimizing Your Children’s Health in my book,
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michel soucy (verified owner) –
my wife loves it
MRS EILEEN MOSS (verified owner) –
very interesting
Angelique Celestine (verified owner) –
Great info
Rita (verified owner) –
Great book. Bought it for a class reading, but I got a lot out of the story.
Karen D. (verified owner) –
Excellent book to aid understanding of trauma, even for a novice to the field
DAZ (verified owner) –
If you want to know about the effects of trauma on children and what you can do about it, this book is a must. Thorough, complete, and well written by one of the giants in the field. It should be part of your library if you are interested in childhood adversity and its effects.
Chewie (verified owner) –
Well received and in good condition! Thank you!
wendy bernacki (verified owner) –
A power filled book, incredibly valuable in my trauma care.
TB (verified owner) –
Great product.
Yvonne Rawlins (verified owner) –
This text is one of the required for a program where I am being trained to become a trauma competent professional. The book is thorough and comprehensive in explaining to persons about the needs and requirements
necessary in understanding areas to include in raising children from infancy through adolescence .This book provides significant case studies and tool kits to provide support and healing for those whose lives have been impacted by trauma.
Melodi Ozyaprak (verified owner) –
The book was clean and like new as it was told. Thanks.
Jolie D. (verified owner) –
Amazing book, well worth a read, a chunky book with a nice soft cover and of course, an amazing approach to trauma minimising and treatment
Matthew (verified owner) –
Simply put: a must have for any LCSW or any medical health (physical or mental) provider that works with children. AND much of the content can help adults understand past trauma and how it may have or currently affects them.
Erin-Marie Kernan (verified owner) –
This is a parents bubble to help avoid the long term effects of subtle childhood abuse. When you think you are in control and then life grows you curve balls just remember your children are along for the ride so be mindful and take action. Peter Levine saved my life there is no one more equipped to guide us three hell. I often use this book as a reference during sessions.