Calming Stormy Feelings
A Child’s Introduction to Psychotherapy
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Noticing children’s upset feelings can be hard because feelings are on the inside. But when feelings grow too strong they create storms that burst through and change the way children act. Here are some of the ways in which children’s upset feelings begin to show on the outside:
Children may
-get angry often
-feel scared or worried about a lot of different things
-have trouble falling asleep
-feel frightened by nightmares
-argue with family and/or friends
-find schoolwork or home routines difficult
-have tantrums
-act in a mean way to people
When feelings create these storms, children need help to calm down and feel better.
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About the Book
Knowing how to help children with their feelings can be challenging for all parents, but when feelings grow too strong, they create storms that burst through and change the way children act. This book aims to introduce parents and children to the world of feelings and psychotherapy. Age appropriate explanations are provided so that children, parents, teachers, doctors and other professionals gain a language for conversing on this topic.
About the Author
Sarah K. Abel has been a psychotherapist since 1994 and has a long interest in helping families to prepare their children to enter into therapy and face this vulnerable moment for both the parents and their children. She is a graduate of the New York University School of Social Work and the Institute of Child, Adolescent and Family Studies and completed a Postgraduate Fellowship in Psychoanalysis at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has taught child development at Smith College School of Social Work and currently treats children, adolescents and adults in her private practice in Northampton, MA.
Karen Zilberstein is a child and family therapist and Clinical Director of the Northampton, MA chapter of A Home Within, a national nonprofit devoted to providing pro bono psychotherapy to foster care youth and alumni. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Smith College School for Social Work, where she teaches and coordinates the Child Development Team. Her publications include journal articles on child therapy, the treatment of foster and adopted children, and the clinical implications of attachment and complex trauma in children.