The Mourning Breaks is a cookbook collection of treatment activities that can be used for child victims of sexual abuse, encouraging the use of scrapbooks for children in therapy. Practical, helpful, and easy to use, this valuable resource assists therapists in organizing treatment activities for pre-school, pre-teen, and adolescent age groups. In addition to creative treatment techniques, a modified "Sexual Victim Trauma Assessment Data Collection Form" is provided in The Mourning Breaks, allowing clinicians to use trauma study information to complete trauma assessment to better enhance individual treatment plans for sexually abused children. This book was originally published in 1992 but the recent revision in 2006 contains an updated introduction by Jan Hindman, describing the important need for sensory-based therapeutic approaches.
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