Helping Children with Complex Needs Bounce Back

Kim Aumann is Director of ART (Amaze Research and Training). Amaze is a parent-led voluntary organization offering support and advice to parents of children with special needs and disabilities. She has been a practitioner in this area for 15 years. Angie Hart is Professor of Child, Family and Community Health at the University of Brighton. She is also the mother of three adopted children, all with special needs, and is a child and family therapist.

The book achieves a kind and respectful tone. It uses this base to gently push people toward increased resilience through the use of many well thought out discovery exercises and action checklists that are all grounded in research and real world experience. The book elegantly achieves the aim of encouraging parents (& professionals) to build a coping scaffold. It respectfully invites people to reflect on the resources they already have and then use the 'straightforward, ordinary magic' of resilient therapy to begin a change in everyday life.

• Introduction. Chapter One: Basics. Chapter Two: Belonging. Chapter Three: Learning.Chapter Four: Coping. Chapter Five: Core Self. Chapter Six: To conclude: Let’s get real. It’s tough, but so are you. Appendices: Feedback. References. Index.