Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatised Children and Young People by Patrick Tomlinson

This book gives extensive coverage to work by staff at the Cotswold Community, a therapeutic community of working with the psychodynamic principle, from 1994 to 2000.

It Covers every aspect of the therapeutic way of working in great detail and gives good examples of practice and theory. It also lays out the principles that underpin way of working within a therapeutic environment.'

- Children Now

'Trauma for many, is a fact of life. But is the right kind of human environment, so too is recovery.'

- Attributed to Paul van Heeswyck from the foreword

'The text draw on the author's experience and wealth of material from staff discussions.

The therapeutic framework is applied to this client group and integrated into all aspects of their care. The additional material on child-adult, staff-dynamics, supervision and management, will be of great interest to a wide range of residential staff, social workers, foster carers, therapists and educationalists caring for or working with emotionally needy children and young people.'