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Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.This book provides a model of care for traumatized children and young people, based on theory and practice experience pioneered at the Lighthouse Foundation, Australia. The authors explain the impact of trauma on child development, drawing on psychodynamic, attachment and neurobiological trauma theories. The practical aspects of undertaking therapeutic care are then outlined, covering everything from forming therapeutic relationships to the importance of the home environment and daily routines. The book considers the totality of the child's experience at the individual, group, organization and community levels and argues that attention to all of these is essential if the child is to achieve wellness. Case material from both children and carers are used throughout to illustrate both the impact of trauma and how children have been helped to recovery through therapeutic care.This book will provide anyone caring for traumatized children and young people in a residential setting with both the understanding and the practical knowledge to help children recover. It will be essential reading for managers and decision-makers responsible for looked after children, child care workers such as residential and foster carers, youth workers, social workers, mental health workers and child welfare academics.

Behold the Man! From Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sundayfocuses on Christ’s decisive words and actions beginning on Palm Sunday and continuing through to His death, burial, and resurrection on Resurrection Sunday. In doing so, Christ leads the way taking upon Himself the righteous wrath of God as He was nailed to a cross, yet offering grace and merciful pardon from sin for all who would turn to Him in hope. And He accomplished God's plan of redemption in eight days!So, what can Jesus’s behavior, His words, and His actions undertaken during those last crucial days in and around Jerusalem teach us about effective leadership? Dr. Gonzalez uses the principles of applied history and actionable insight to identify and apply 89 insights from Jesus’ leadership in action.And for those who doubt whether anyone can ever measure up to Christ,Behold the Man!offers a powerful apologetic proving that the resources Jesus used to accomplish His work on that fateful week are the same resources every Christian leader now enjoys in Christ.Dr. Rudy Gonzalez has reached back two thousand years to the greatest leader the world has ever known, the Lord Jesus Christ. Drawing from the last eight days of His earthly sojourn, he reveals some of the most powerful principles of leadership to be found in any modern book or popular podcast.—Dr. O. S. Hawkins, chancellor and senior professor of Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary