Trauma Responsive Set

This collection of books is curated for any early child care professional seeking the most well-rounded tools to help children in difficult situations from toddlers to school age. These resources provide you the tools to help the most vulnerable population through the most difficult situations with the most up-to-date guidance, insight, real world situations, and activities.

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Making it Better 2nd Edition

Children living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning. They might demonstrate disrespectful or defiant behaviors, act out, or act with aggression. As an educator, you may provide the only stability in their otherwise turbulent world.

Making It Better explains trauma-informed education, an approach that recognizes the impact of traumatic stress on children and its effect on the growing brain, and applies the latest neurological research to teaching methods, disciplinary policies, and interactions to support grieving children.

This book responds to the learning and behavioral needs of children who have experienced traumatic events or toxic stress—such as natural disasters, community violence, or abuse or neglect within the child's familial relations—and includes a collection of activities and strategies to help children heal and feel empowered.

Distressed children need absolute emotional security and an opportunity to engage in healing activities. With your help, children can begin to build resiliency and find renewed hope for the future.

200 pages

A Fighting Chance

Every day, many children have to cope with complicated and disruptive situations, and your classroom can become the most stable environment in their young lives. This resource uses case studies to illustrate what disruptive change can look like, and it covers a variety of types of disruptive change, including homelessness, incarceration, multiple parent relationships, and more.

Learn how to address disruptive changes with an extensive toolbox of activities, ideas, and resources to help you find the best practical approach for each child. Address different types of disruptive change with professionalism, and employ proven strategies to affect the direction of young children’s lives in a positive way.

145 pages

Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Early Childhood

Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Early Childhood offers an overview of trauma and its impact on young children, as well as specific strategies and techniques educators and administrators can use to create classroom and school communities that improve the quality of care for this vulnerable population. Katie Statman-Weil has synthesized research-based information in an accessible way. Focusing on the four different domains of cognitive, language, physical, and social-emotional, she uses vignettes to explore how trauma can be expressed in the classroom and what teachers can do about it.

216 pages

Supporting Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing

The emotional lives of young children are growing increasingly more complex. There is rising interest in understanding early mental health and wellbeing and how early childcare providers can support children birth to age five who have complex behaviors. Supporting Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing incorporates strength-based child care strategies to foster positive reciprocal relationships between caregiver and young children and strengthen children’s resiliency and wellbeing.

Strategies include identifying our spheres of influence in building on children’s mental health; identifying protective factors; promoting healthy attachment; and scaffolding social and emotional development in early childhood programs within the context of family relationships and culture.

Supporting Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing covers:

• Exploring the foundations of mental health and wellbeing in the first five years
• Examining the stages of typical social-emotional development
• Identifying concerning behaviors in early childhood setting
• Understanding influences on brain development
• Categorizing risk and resiliency factors in the first five years of life
• Supporting children who have experienced trauma or traumatic events
• Creating strength-based approaches to working with families
• Building a toolkit of strength-based strategies and resources
  
  200 pages.
  
  

  Happily Ever Resilient

  In Happily Ever Resilient Dr. Stephanie Goloway uses current trauma research and beloved multicultural variants of classic children's fairytales to create joyful, playful learning experiences for young children.
  
  Part one of the book covers why using fairytales in early childhood classrooms supports resilience and literacy in all children, especially important for children who have experienced trauma and toxic stress. Part two covers how to do this. Each chapter includes

  • Story Magic: information about the fairytale and its multicultural variants, how the story connects with the protective factors of resilience, and suggestions for storytelling and storyacting

   

  • Caring Magic: activities that help children make connections with each other and adults in their lives, related to the story

   

  • Doing Magic: suggestions for adapting classroom learning centers to support children’s engagement with both the fairytale and resilience, along with projects that promote initiative and executive functions

   

  • Superpower Magic: activities, songs, and games related to the story that foster self-regulation as well as ways the story can be used to support calm, integrated transitions and routines

  
  By tapping into the extraordinary magic of fairytales early childhood educators can create the ordinary magic of resilience.
  
  160 pages