The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice
A Resilience-Based Roadmap to Foster Early Relational Health
Title Details
1st Ed.
© 2024 American Academy of Pediatrics
R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP; Amy King, PhD
ISBN-13: 978-1-61002-740-3
eISBN-13: 978-1-61002-741-0
Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Social Work
Additional Details
In this engaging, approachable book, a pediatrician and a psychologist walk step by step through the transformational process of creating a trauma-informed practice. They begin with essential concepts such as the debate over “ACE screening,” then share how to prepare an organization for change, assess risks to relational health, support caregivers, use resilience-based interventions, and finally how to sustain a trauma-responsive practice. Reflecting the authors’ call for interdisciplinary collaboration, the book is presented as a dialogue between two experts, describing how they collaborated on their own practice transformation—including both the pitfalls and the factors that made the process successful.
A growing body of research shows that early relational health is the essential factor in building resilience in children to buffer the effects of trauma and adversity and prevent toxic stress from occurring. This hands-on guide shows how to help build safe, stable, nurturing relationships between children and caregivers, and how to be responsive not just to children’s trauma, but to their parents’ as well. In the hands of Gillespie and King, what may seem like an overwhelming undertaking becomes one that we can—and must—undertake to fully support the health and wellbeing of children.
CONTENTS INCLUDE
- The ACE debate and ethical considerations
- Building the case for resilience
- Navigating barriers to safe, stable, nurturing relationships
- Understanding early relational health
- Supporting caregivers to strengthen safe, stable, nurturing relationships
- Building caregiver–child relationships
- Revamping anticipatory guidance
- Designing and using efficacious interventions to support early relational health and heal trauma
- Supporting families that have experienced trauma
- Addressing physician overwhelm
- Sustaining trauma-responsive practices
The primary audience includes pediatric clinicians and providers at all training levels who interact with patients. The book explains trauma-informed care very well and meets the needs of the intended audience. The authors are credible authorities from different disciplines who have much practice experience developing trauma-informed pediatric practice.
Doody's Core Titles (DCT)
Specialty Score: 2.2 Health Sciences - Pediatrics
Doody's Review
Score: 91/100
Stars: 4
"This book encourages pediatric practice without harm, providing benevolence, autonomy, and justice. This may be the first book of its kind in this area and is much needed. It requires a lot of concentration and sensitivity by pediatric providers as well as understanding of the concepts so the clinical information may be gathered, carefully documented, and utilized to provide help, therapy, support, and to develop a safe, nurturing relationship with patients and families."
-- Joseph Hageman, MD (Touro University Illinois) Doody's Review
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