Description
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Regulate covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children’s behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents and professionals clearly keep in mind the neurological research at the back of the basic model given in this book, deemed, ‘The Stress Model.’ Whilst scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy to keep in mind and easy to grasp format for anyone working with or parenting children with severe behaviors. The next seven chapters are individually devoted to seven behaviors generally seen with attachment-challenged children. These include lying, stealing, hoarding and gorging, aggression, defiance, lack of eye contact, and yes, even a chapter that talks candidly about how parents appear hostile and angry when they work to simply care for their families from reaching complete states of chaos. Every of these chapters talks in depth on these specific behaviors and gives vivid and contrasting examples of how this love-based approach works to foster healing and works to develop relationships, versus the fear-based traditional attachment parenting approaches that are being advocated in today’s attachment field. The authors end with a Parenting Bonus Section: true testimonials from parents who have been in a position to make significant changes in their homes with this model of parenting, giving real-life examples of how they have got been in a position to find the healing, peace, and love that they had been seeking prior to working through the techniques outlined in this book.