Main description:

Nurturing Children describes children's lives transformed through therapy.

Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis alongside modern developmental thinking from neurobiology, attachment and trauma theory and mindfulness, Music creates his own distinctive blend of approaches to help even the most traumatised of children.

A mix of personal accounts and therapeutic riches, Nurturing Children will appeal to anyone helping children, young people and families to lead fuller lives.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: One foot in the ditch

Chapter 3: Resilience, mismatches and repair

Chapter 4: Attachment, and jumpy untrusting kids

Chapter 5: Stuart: growing an 'inner executive' and a mind to think thoughts

Chapter 6: Left hemispheres rule, feelings avoided. Jenny and Edward

Chapter 7: Neglected children: why it is easy yet dangerous to neglect neglect

Chapter 8: Bringing up the bodies: body awareness and easeful selves

Chapter 9: Trauma and treading carefully

Chapter 10: Angels and devils: sadism and violence in children

Chapter 11: Altruism and compassion: how they can be turned on and off

Chapter 12: Addiction, tech and the web: new dangers hijacking old systems

Chapter 13: Freeing the scapegoat by containing not blaming: thoughts on schools-based therapeutic work (with Becky Hall)

Chapter 14: Concluding thoughts