This book presents "The Circle of Safety and Reconnection", a compassionate reflection model on working with vulnerable and traumatised children and young people in a nurturing way, providing hope for post-traumatic healing and growth.
This book presents “The Circle of Safety and Reconnection”, a compassionate reflection model for working with vulnerable and traumatised children and young people in a nurturing way, providing hope for post-traumatic healing and growth.
The circle is a holistic and comprehensive framework for professionals working to create safety for children against violence and abuse. It takes into consideration a child’s individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma also assessing their risk and protection factors and using different tools to regulate the nervous system and promote healing. A step-by-step guide, populated with practice examples and exercises to walk the reader through using and adapting the model in practice, the book discusses the nature, signs, and ways of trauma, the reasons for it, and the different ways of healing these wounds outside the therapeutic context. Additionally, as this field is high risk for secondary traumatisation, stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue, the author has dedicated a chapter focusing solely on the building of resilience in professionals.
This text is written for all professionals working in the field, including therapists and psychologists, social workers, educators, foster parents, nurses, day-care workers, and students.
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Through A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children, Rikke Ludvigsen manages to skillfully combine research and theories around safety planning and trauma healing. The book covers topics from how you as a therapist can take care of yourself and how to understand WHY the child acts like it does, to theories about brain development and nervous system. I recommend this book to all people dealing with traumatised children and their network. This book is going to make a huge impact worldwide on trauma treatment.
Mette Vangsøe Olsen, family therapist, Copenhagen, Denmark
1 Introduction to trauma-informed work and the Circle of Safety and
Reconnection; 2 Preventing stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue; 3 The
Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 1: Assessing the current risk to the
childs safety, health, development, and well-being; 4 The Circle of Safety
and Reconnection, Step 2: An overview of the childs trauma history,
diagnoses, and current state of mind; 5 The Circle of Safety and
Reconnection, Step 3: Parents trauma, diagnosis, intergenerational trauma,
and their impact on parenting skills; 6 The Circle of Safety and
Reconnection, Step 4: Assessing the ACEs and other important risk factors in
the childs life; 7 The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 5: Assessing
positive childhood experiences and other important protective factors in the
childs life; 8 The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 6: Assessing the
adequate care and protection of the child by parents and other significant
adults and the positive impact on the childs health, well-being, and
development; 9 The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 7: Setting the
right goals to create safety, health, development, and well-being for the
child; 10 The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 8: Create an action,
treatment, or safety plan with clear agreements on following up; 11 Closing
the trauma circle and opening a healing circle instead
Rikke Ludvigsen is a social worker, trainer, supervisor, family consultant, and therapist trained in safety planning, EMDR, SFBT, and stabilisation of chronically traumatised children. She has worked for over 20 years with children at risk, their parents, and their networks, and has trained over 1,000 professionals over the last decade.
