Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing

This is a parents bubble to help avoid the long term effects of subtle childhood abuse. When you think you are in control and then life grows you curve balls just remember your children are along for the ride so be mindful and take action. Peter Levine saved my life there is no one more equipped to guide us three hell. I often use this book as a reference during sessions.

This text is one of the required for a program where I am being trained to become a trauma competent professional. The book is thorough and comprehensive in explaining to persons about the needs and requirementsnecessary in understanding areas to include in raising children from infancy through adolescence .This book provides significant case studies and tool kits to provide support and healing for those whose lives have been impacted by trauma.

Simply put: a must have for any LCSW or any medical health (physical or mental) provider that works with children. AND much of the content can help adults understand past trauma and how it may have or currently affects them.

This book is a remarkable resource of information for anyone who has any experience or contact with children. It is not a heady read. Completely and utterly accessible to those who have no formal training in psychology (yet still riveting for those who do), it has many step-by-step guides (creative, physical, and emotional) for dealing with and assisting children through a myriad of life's trials and traumas, including random falls and accidents, loss of a pet, abuse, death, & bullying to name a few. This book also offers numerous skill-building guides to help a child develop their senses, mindfulness, awareness and boundaries, and several basic cases are presented of children they have come in contact with over the years with various presenting problems. Terribly informative, moving, healing, thought provoking and profoundly educational, this book will be one you'll recommend again and again. Not said tongue in cheek, if you were ever a child, you need to read this book.

This book helped me understand what may be going on with a troubled teenager that I am concerned about. I shared it with the girl's grandmother and she also found it very helpful. It specifically helps one understand the types of trauma that can affect a child and how unresolved trauma can have a major impact on the behavior of a person well into adulthood. Although it helped me understand the situation, I don't think it provided enough guidance to me of how to help a person or interact with a person who has been deeply affected by trauma.

This book offers clear explanations to the nature of trauma and how it affects the body--and subsequently, the emotions and perceptions and behavior--and how to prevent an overwhelming event from BECOMING traumatic for the long term. It is filled with doable and clear exercises, and helps demystify the concept of what trauma is, why things are traumatic, how to prevent trauma, the incidious way that traumatic events can impact later sensations and perceptions, and how to help heal those. A book by a leading figure in the field of trauma and the body, Peter Levine is a master.Wonderfully clarifying for anyone who works with children--be it traumatized children or children who are exposed to 'normal' occasional overwhelming events such as falling of a bike--and to anyone who works with parents of children.Highly recommended.

If you want to know about the effects of trauma on children and what you can do about it, this book is a must. Thorough, complete, and well written by one of the giants in the field. It should be part of your library if you are interested in childhood adversity and its effects.

Fantastic book! Peter Levine and Maggie Kline did a wonderfully with putting this book out there. It's so well written and very accessible. I have a few of Peter Levine's book and this is by far one of my favorites. I love how many real life examples it includes to bring the ideas home. It's well balanced between science, cases, and exercises making it a book for practitioners, pediatricians, parents, educators, and other adults that would like to understand trauma better and know how to help their children's nervous system recover to reduce the impact of trauma. Thanks again Levine and Kline!

Met my expectations. I recommand. Delivered on time.

my wife loves it

Arrived very quickly!! Item is as described.

Filled with a wonderful amount of amazing information.

Amazing book, well worth a read, a chunky book with a nice soft cover and of course, an amazing approach to trauma minimising and treatment