Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain
Subtitle: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780789017888
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Paediatric medicine; Psychology; Post-traumatic stress disorder in children; Neuropsychology; Treatment; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent; Growth; Brain; Pediatric neuropsychology; Post-traumatic stress disorder
First sentence: Since the brain looks rather unassuming-just three pounds of grayish matter covered with convoluted ridges and valleys-it is hard to imagine that it contains so many intricately developed parts.
Description: Stien, a supervising therapist and mental health consultant for Head Start and early childhood education programs, and health care writer Kendall describe a new psychobiological model of child development that posits a complex interaction between environmental and biological factors.