Frances S. Waters - Healing the Fractured Child: Diagnosis and Treatment of Youth with Dissociation

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR HEALING THE FRACTURED CHILD

Anyone who works with troubled children and their families should not miss this book. Healing the Fractured Child weaves together comprehensive theory and neurobiology that substantiate practical treatment guidelines for children and their families. The complexity of symptoms, diagnoses, assessment, and use of medication and a variety of innovative treatment approaches for stabilization, trauma processing, and integration are explored and come to life through the clear, practical, and touching clinical illustrations peppered throughout the book. Fran Waters has drawn on her vast clinical experience and thorough knowledge of current perspectives on dissociation and child therapy to write an integrative, readable, and immensely useful masterpiece, a gift to the field of child psychology and psychotherapy and to the many therapists, children, and parents who will benefit from her wisdom.

Pat Ogden, PhD, Founder, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Healing the Fractured Child provides an invaluable source of information for all professionals and nonprofessionals interested in childhood dissociation. Based on her many years of experience in this field, Waters takes us from an explanation of dissociation and related theories to the behaviors that may be noticed by a parent, teacher, or doctor, through the assessment quagmire and the challenges of parenting, to the important work of emotional regulation and the identification of self-states, bringing in consideration of where medication can or cannot assist and describing the hard work of trauma processing, to integration, possible relapse, and back again to even stronger internal integration. The intricately described clinical examples provide a plethora of ideas for working with these children and offer readers the encouragement and hope so important for working with children who experienced trauma.

Sandra Wieland, PhD, RPsych, Editor of Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents, Second Edition: Theory and Clinical Interventions

Healing the Fractured Child is a skillfully written, comprehensive, and remarkable volume. It is well grounded in theory and full of rich, practical applications and detailed case examples. Waterss outstanding work will expand clinicians capacity to understand and assess dissociation as well as to effectively accompany children in their healing journeys. It is an essential resource for therapists of all orientations working with trauma and dissociation.

Ana M. Gmez, MC, LPC, Author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches With Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation

This book is a compilation of years worth of clinical work with traumatized, dissociatively fractured children, and the authors sensitivity and accumulated wisdom are on every page. With her integrative model, Fran Waters makes the behaviors of these traumatized childrenwhich are seemingly incomprehensible and often misdiagnosedunderstandable and even logical. Therapists, parents, and others who are in a position to interact with the dissociative child can benefit from this book with its down-to-earth and practical explanations and intervention strategies. It belongs in the library of all who treat these children and those who treat adult survivors of childhood abuse. Brava!

Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP, Licensed Psychologist, Independent Practice, Washington, DC

Frances S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT, a clinical social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in Marquette, Michigan, is an internationally recognized educator, trainer, consultant, and clinician in the areas of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation.

She was the past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), and she is currently the faculty director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Institute and the cochair of the ISSTDs Child and Adolescent Committee. She has authored numerous articles and chapters and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, as well as on the advisory board of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence.

Fran Waters is an executive producer and a participant of several training videos on childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation targeted toward mental health professionals, caretakers, teachers, child protective services workers, forensic evaluators, and prosecutors. She received the 2008 Media Award from the American Professional Society on Abuse of Children for her production of Trauma and Dissociation in Children, which was geared toward forensic evaluators and prosecutors. She is the recipient of ISSTDs Presidential Award and is a fellow of the ISSTD.

HEALING THE FRACTURED CHILD

DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF YOUTH WITH DISSOCIATION

Frances S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Waters, Frances S., author.

Title: Healing the fractured child : diagnosis and treatment of youth with dissociation / Frances S. Waters.

Description: New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040802| ISBN 9780826199638 (hard copy : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780826199645 (ebook)

Subjects: | MESH: Dissociative Disorders. | Adolescent. | Child. | Stress Disorders, Traumatic.

Classification: LCC RJ506.D55 | NLM WM 173.6 | DDC 618.92/8523dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040802