Anne Bannister worked as a probation officer and as a social worker/therapist for the NSPCC. She pioneered the formation of the Child Sexual Abuse Consultancy for the NSPCC and managed it until her retirement. She published extensively on child protection issues and on psychodrama, dramatherapy and playtherapy.

If I could unravel the strands that make this book, they might be these: the author's thirty years experience as probation officer, social worker and therapist; the phenomena of the sexual abuse of children as it emerged into public consciousness since the 1970s; ways of demonstrating the value of creative arts therapy for traumatized children; a therapeutic model for working in this field that is linked to theory and backed by the author's own research; the poetry of therapy sessions with children as expressed in case studies. All this in only 144 pages of text!

• 1. Introduction: How the Regenerative Model Evolved. 2. Repairing the Damage. 3. Creative Therapies and Their Uses. 4. Why are Children so Vulnerable? 5. Individual Work with Sexually Abused Children. 6. Groupwork with Sexually Abused Children. 7. Further Applications of Creative Therapies with Traumatised Children. 8. Summary of the Regenerative Model. References. Index.