Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
edited by Cathy A. Malchiodi
The Guilford Press 2008
Foreword by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhDpage ix:
A traumatized child can heal and grow stronger and wiser by facing, coping with, and overcoming trauma and its aftermath. This is the promise of effective healing from trauma, of true therapeutic experience.
Prefacepage xiv:
The premise that most children intuitively us art and play to act out what they are reliving and what they may find unspeakable is at the heart of this book.
Creative Interventions With Traumatized Children
edited by Cathy A. Malchiodi
The Guilford Press 2008
Empowering Children through Art and Expression: Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief
Bruce St Thomas and Paul Jobnson
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007
Expressive and Creative Arts Methods for Trauma Survivors
Edited by Lois Carey
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006
Interactive Art Therapy: "No Talent Required" Projects
Linda L. Simmons, PsyD
The Haworth Press 2006
BOOK TITLE: Post-Traumatic Stress Theory: Research and Application
Edited by John H. Harvey Ph.D
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Brian G. Panwels
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
CHAPTER FOUR
Comparison of Narratives of Loss Experiences of World War II and Vietnam Combat Veterans
Carrie Barnes and John H. Harvey
Department of Psychology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
page 69
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... In posing this question, we adopted what we have referred to as an account-making model of dealing with major loss(Harvey, 1996; Harvey, Weber, & Orbuch, 1990)... The basic idea is that people often effectively deal with major loss over time by developing an account, or story, pertaining to the loss. The story explains the loss, as best one can explain it, and provides descriptive information about events surrounding the loss that capture the meaning of the loss for the individual... People probably develop accounts about all matters of moment in their lives, including many positive experiences, but our work focus mainly on their accounts of negative, stressful experiences.
A final area of analysis in the account-making model pertains to a person's work on a personal story and related confiding about it to the point that a feeling of acceptance and understanding occurs. This stage is accompaied by identity change. The person feels that he or she has changed in fundamental ways as a result of the loss and how he or she processed it in terms of feelings, thoughts, and social interactions. This later stage is comparable to what Horawitz(1976) and others have referred to as the development of schema change associated with severe streesors.
Lynn E. DeLisi. 2003. The Acute Aftermath of an Earthquake in El Salvador:Disaster Psychiatry: 133-143
notes
Cultural differences, historical events such as wars, people's daily life as well as social sucurity are mentioned.
The interviewee was tearfully touring them in the ruined city. She refused to take medication to sleep and to talk to people about her grief becasue she was not ready to resolve it. She also felt embarrased that she was talking to psychiatrists.
people were not asking for help with sleep or anxiety but suffering silently in their tents. They had to be drawn out somehow.
interviewing people with questionnaire and get the data. 97.5 percent had at least one severe symptom of post-traumatic stress or generalized anxiety.
talking to families one by one about their plans and how they would cop. Most people were in shock without any thoughts of the future.
Theories about learned helplessness. What you can't control gets you down, leading to a kind of helpless feeling.
vocabularies
schizophrenia
trauma
diseases that may happen after the quake: tetanus, yellow fever, hepatitis, polio, malaria
tranquilizer / sedative
anguish
antidepressant
severity
A topic is an interest specific enough to support research that one might plausibly report on in a book or article that helps others to advance their thinking and understanding.
narrow the topic by adding modifying words and phrases. (conflict, desription, contribution and development)
the starting point of good research is always what you do not know or understand but feel you must.
I am studing _____________, because I want to find out who/how/why __________ in order to understand how/why what____________.
I am studing post-traumatic stress disorder, because I want to find out how media can help with the PTSD cure process in order to help children who survived the Sichuan earthquake.
