Useful Resources

Building Relationships,
Attachment, Developmental Trauma

Building Relationships, Attachment, Developmental Trauma

Booth, P (2009) Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships through Attachment Based Play. Jossey-Bass
De Thierry, B (2017) The simple Guide to child Trauma. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
De Thierry, B (2019) The simple guide to understanding shame in children. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
De Thierry, B (2019) The simple guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
Gerhard, S (20014) Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain
Golding, K and Hughes, D (2012) Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
Golding, K (2008) Nurturing Attachments Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
Guerney, L. and Ryan, V (2013) Group Filial Therapy: The Complete Guide to Teaching Parents to Play Therapeutically with their Children. Jessica Kingsley Publications
Hughes, D. and Baylin, J (2012) Brain – Based Parenting: The Science of Caregiving
for Healthy Attachment. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co
Hughes, D.A., Golding, K.S., Hudson, J (2019) Healing Relational Trauma with
Attachment Focused Interventions. WW Norton, NY and London
Perry, B (2006) The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. Basic Books

In Brief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children’s Development. This is a very readable overview, with picture and an accompanying video. Click here to access this.
The Beacon House website – a fantastic collection of brilliant resources, information and advice for children, families and schools. Click here to access it.
The Beacon House video on Window Of Tolerance can be found here
The Child Trauma Academy website, which has lots of good resources. Click here to access it.
They also have other resources, including videos, such as The Human Brain videocast by Bruce Perry (2013) as part of their Seven slide series. Click here to watch it.
Ruby Jo Walker has some excellent resources on her website eg Polyvagal theory explained in a useful and simple format. Click here to access it.

Elliot. A (2013) Why can’t my child behave? Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
Greene R and J Stuart Ablon (2006) Treating explosive Kids, the collaborative problem solving approach. Guilford.
Greene. R (2014) The explosive Child. Harper
Hill. K (2018) Left to their own devices? Confident parenting in a world of screens. Muddy Pearl.
Naish. S (2018) The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
Norris. V and Rodwell. H (2017) Parenting with Theraplay. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
Phelan. T. (2016) 1-2-3 Magic, the 3 step discipline for calm, effective and happy parenting. Sourcebooks
Siegel.D and Payne Bryson. T (2012) The Whole Brain Child. 12 Proven strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind. Robinson
Siegel. D and Payne Bryon. T (2016) No Drama Discipline. PESI
Siegel. D and Hartzell. M (2016) Parenting from the Inside out. Scribe
Shafran. R, Saunders. U and Welham. A (2021) How to cope when your child can’t.
Comfort, help and hope for parents. Robison

Teenagers

Havey. A and Puccio. D (2016) Sex, Like and Social Media. Talking to our teens in the digital age. Vermillion
Orenstien.P (2016) Girls and Sex. One World.
Phelan. T (2016) 1-2-3 Magic Teen. Sourcebooks

Building underdeveloped sensory systems

Brukner. L (2016) The kid’s guide to staying awesome and in control. Simple stuff to help Kids regulate their emotions and senses.
Lloyd. S (2016) Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatised Children. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia
New Tab: Child development
Murray, L. and Andrews, L. (2000) The Social Baby. CP Publishing, Richmond, Surrey, UK
Music, G (2011) Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development. Psychology Press
Sharma, A. and Cockerill, H(2014) Mary Sheridan’s from Birth to Five Years: Children’s Developmental Progress. Routledge
Tredgett, S (2015) Learning through Movement in the Early Years, Critical Publishing

websites outlining ages and stages of development and with lots of useful links and ideas. - click here to access the “mama OT” website and click here to access the “CanDoKiddo” website.
The First 1001 Days Movement website has resources about early development. Click here to access it.