.
GETTING STARTED
1. Read the whole book yourself before your child or student does, if he or she is less than ten or eleven years of age. 2. Be sure to read the "Guide for Children and Teenagers" to children who can't read it themselves, and answer any questions they may have. 3. Point out to your child or student that this terror and war are important moments in history. Now is a time the child's family and the whole world will remember. He or she can be part of history. He or she can help make a record of it with this workbook. Perhaps years later people will discover this workbook, and it will help them understand more about what happened. 4. Be flexible in your work with your child. Working on this book may take several weeks. The entire book does not have to be completed in order for the book to help. Never force a child to face a section of the book against his or her will. Allow each child to select which parts of the book to work with first and to stop using the book whenever he or she wants, even though it may not have been completed. It is usually best not to work on the book right before bedtime. 5. A child who cannot or will not work with you should have his resistance respected. See the Mental Health Checklist at the end of the book. 6. To Therapists: Our view is that severe stressors are best healed by gaining new or increased skills and broadening one's perspective, going on with life, and putting the events in a context. There should never be an insistence on endless review of the most painful memories. See the Children's Psychological Trauma Center Scientific Bulletin of February 2000 on www.cphc-sf.org for our senior author's Unifying New Theory of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Note how important it is to help stressed children see and remember their complex worlds broadly rather than narrowly, widely rather than only through the overly simple and stark perspective of repetitive traumatic memories. Use pictures and articles from online screenshots, newspapers and magazines. Help him or her paste them in to make the workbook into a scrapbook. Use blank pages for extra clippings. At the very least, ask the child to make some drawings and color in the illustrations, while you participate. Some children may work with the book on and off as they get stronger. Children very close to the disaster make take weeks and sometimes even months, and will be able to complete a difficult section only at a later date.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS LAND MINE. IT LOOKS LIKE A TOY. DON’T TOUCH IT!!! CALL A GROWNUP TO HELP YOU IF YOU FIND ONE.
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online