What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late?We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health:Physical impacts are stored in muscles and postureThreats of harm are stored as tensionOverwhelming emotion is held insideNegative emotional patterns become habitCoping and defense mechanism become inflexibleWhat if we could resolve childhood trauma before years go by and these effects solidify in body and mind?In a perfect world, we’d like to be able to shield children from hurt and harm. In the real world, children, even relatively fortunate ones, may experience accidents, injury, illness, and loss of loved ones. Children unfortunate enough to live in unsafe environments live through abuse, neglect, and threats to their well-being and even their life.What if we could resolve childhood trauma fully, gently, and completely while the child is still young?We Can. Read Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction and find out how!'This book is a must for any therapist working with kids. Naturally,it focuses on the approach of Traumatic Incident Reduction, but there isa lot of excellent material that will be useful even to the therapistwho has never before heard of TIR and may not be particularly interestedin learning about it. The general approach is respectful of clients,based on a great deal of personal experience by contributors as well ason the now extensive research base supporting TIR, and fits the moregeneral research evidence on what works'. -Robert Rich, PhDBook #2 in the TIR Applications Series. Series Editor: Robert Rich, PhDLearn more about TIR books at www.TIRbook.com
