The Hero’s Mask Guidebook: Helping Children with Traumatic Stress

Download or read book The Hero’s Mask Guidebook: Helping Children with Traumatic Stress written by Richard Kagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hero’s Mask Guidebook provides practical strategies to be used alongside the The Hero’s Mask novel. The Guidebook has been designed to promote an understanding of the impact of traumatic stress and what counselors, therapists, educators, parents and caregivers can do to promote healing and recovery. The Guidebook and storybook can be used together to spark conversations around the difficult topics of loss and trauma and to create openings for renewing and strengthening emotionally supportive relationships with distressed children after traumatic experiences. The Guidebook identifies resources to access information about treatment programs and strategies that can help children and families with traumatic stress and integration of The Hero’s Mask books with Real Life Heroes®, an evidence-supported treatment program for children and families with traumatic stress.