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Item Nr: B 96643 Title: Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Perry, Bruce Szalavitz, Maia
Length: 275 Prod/Pub: Basic Books
Copyright: 2007 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry shares the stories of trauma and transformation he has encountered in his line of work, describing what happens to a child's brain when exposed to extreme stress and how innovative treatments are helping those children heal and become healthy adults. He has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Perry says severe and occasionally even not-so-severe emotional or physical abuse can chemically alter early brain development, resulting later in the inability to make appropriate, socially sanctioned behavioral decisions. Perry doesn't promote what he calls the "abuse excuse"for antisocial or criminal behavior; rather, he makes a powerful case for early intervention for disruptive children to prevent adult sociopathy. Abnormal psychology- Case studies. Post-traumatic stress disorder Treatment Case studies. PTSD.

  Subjects:
  1314 - ABUSE
  1317 - CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  360 - COUNSELING
  895 - PSYCHIATRY
  1613 - REQUEST--AEA
  2020 - SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING/SEL
  1381 - STRESS
  1995 - TRAUMA SENSITIVE