From exploring the impact of trauma to emotional safety, developing healthy habits at different ages, and navigating complex trauma symptoms, this handbook uses Betsy de Thierry's Trauma Recovery Focused Model (TRFM) to enable professionals and parents to take a coordinated approach to helping children heal.

A trauma recovery framework that therapists, social workers, teachers, foster carers, adoptive parents and family members can use to support children and young people through recovery from trauma.

Written by Betsy de Thierry, trauma expert and author of the bestselling The Simple Guide to Child Trauma, this handbook is grounded in de Thierry's pioneering Trauma Recovery Focused Model (TRFM®).

Inside, you'll find:

A step by step model for understanding where a child sits on the trauma continuum, from acute crisis to longer term recovery

Practical tools for building safety and stability before attempting any deeper trauma work and interventions

Guidance for navigating CAMHS, safeguarding processes and the wider healthcare and education system on a child's behalf

Reflective exercises and vignettes designed for use by therapists, social workers, SENCOs, foster carers, kinship carers and parents alike

From a practising psychotherapist with three decades of experience in complex trauma, and founder of the Trauma Recovery Centre and the Childhood Trauma Recovery Network (CTRN), this handbook moves past stigmatising, over diagnostic narratives to show what genuine recovery actually looks like, and how every adult in a child's life can help build it.