or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
or
Amazon Prime free trial required. Sign up when you check out. Learn more
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches [Hardcover]

John Briere (Foreword), Eliana Gil (Author)
RRP: £21.95
Price: £20.85 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £1.10 (5%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.
Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, May 31? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details

Formats

 Amazon Price New from Used from
Hardcover £20.85   -- --
Paperback £16.14   -- --
Books Trade-In
Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details.

Frequently Bought Together

Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches + Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children + The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Price For All Three: £52.17

Show availability and delivery details

Buy the selected items together

Product details

More About the Author

Eliana Gil
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.

› Visit Amazon's Eliana Gil Page

Product Description

Review

"Gil provides useful practical guidelines, general principles, and goals for both assessment and intervention using the integrated approach model. The author also describes the expressive therapy techniques in such rich detail that the reader has an excellent understanding of the potential power of these therapeutic tools in their most nuanced form." - PsycCRITIQUES

"Inspirational, practical, and theoretically sound... All professionals engaged with children impacted by any form of abuse and trauma must have this invaluable resource at their disposal." - Child and Family Journal

"A valuable resource that effectively combines theory, research, and clinical case examples. The readability of the text and the detailed use of illustrations that complement the material enhance the quality of this book and speak to Gil's reputation as one of the best in the field of child-focused family therapy." - Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

"This is a text for clinicians by a master clinician with many years of experience in the field." - Child and Family Behavior Therapy

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Review

'In this book, Eliana Gil skillfully shows how a well-selected repertoire of methods can be flexibly combined and adapted to facilitate the successful treatment of traumatized children. Through excellent, detailed case examples, she demonstrates ways to individualize treatment by attending carefully to the personal meanings and experiences of each child. The cases will be of benefit and interest to professionals experienced in working with children, as well as to students in all of the mental health disciplines. This is an excellent work.' - Kathleen Nader, DSW, Austin, Texas, USA

'What a refreshing book! In the age of managed care, Gil provides a clear and compelling argument for the importance of experience, compassion, and insight. Clinicians know that each child is unique, and a flexible, multidimensional approach to healing is what we need to be able to provide. Gil discusses how she has drawn from various schools of thought and therapeutic models to build a clinical workshop with many tools, and how she has learned to use the right tool at the right time to help traumatized children. I highly recommend this book to anyone working with children.' - Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, ChildTrauma Academy, Houston, Texas, USA 

'Gil artfully combines her own experiences as a play therapist with contemporary research findings to provide this practical, interesting guide. Beautifully told accounts of play therapy with young trauma survivors illustrate this thoughtful treatment approach, which integrates cognitive-behavioral, expressive and family therapies. For practitioners as well as students, this book provides a helpful framework for individualizing treatment to fit the unique needs of each child.' - Janine Shelby, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, USA

See all Product Description
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(4)
(3)
(3)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

Customer Reviews

There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:  6 reviews
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Great book, amazing writer! 18 Oct 2007
By Sarah B. Connell - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Eliana Gil is amazing, if you have ever talked with her in person you know what I mean. She is definately one of the foremost experts on treating abused and traumatized children, and has many creative ideas on techniques to use in child and family therapy, etc. (See her other books) In this book, she reviews how to integrate non-directive (i,e, Child centered) approaches with more directive approaches, which is very helpful if you are trying to work with kids in a tight time frame, traveling from school to school, or are just trying to get your head around a theoretical orientation for practice with children and families. I highly reccomend this and her other publications, as well as going to a presentation at one of her conferences.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Extraordinary book by a Rare Clinician 2 May 2008
By David A. Crenshaw - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches I couldn't agree more with the review by Sarah Connell. Eliana Gil is a gift to the field and this book represents the distilled wisdom of an unusually talented and compassionate person who has devoted her entire career to helping abused and traumatized children. Her work has influenced, inspired, and informed my work and I will always be indebted to her. She doesn't speak in the typical mystifying jargon that dominates writing in our field but in plain, clear language and directly from the heart. This is a book that will be read and re-read by countless practitioners and students in the field because it simply doesn't get any better than this insightful and uncommonly helpful book. It is a must read for all who work with the more severely abused and traumatized children who suffer the impact of the worst of the ills of our society. Eliana offers that rare blend of insight and compassion that I regard as uncommon clinical wisdom.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
One of the best play child psychotherapy books ever 2 July 2008
By E. Green - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I concur with David Crenshaw! This book is one of the BEST books I have ever read in the child psychotherapy field. I make it required reading for my play therapy courses at JHU, where I teach.And the author is truly a gift to our field and to humanity. If you ever get the chance to meet her, you will see her humility and beauty coming shining through.

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject
























i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Amazon.co.uk Privacy Statement Amazon.co.uk Delivery Information Amazon.co.uk Returns & Exchanges