“Life cannot be lived without loss,” writes Toni Heineman in the opening of “Relational Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope,” but “perhaps the most insidious loss for foster children is the continuity provided by a single person who keeps them in mind — the one person who can provide a bit of the certainty in a sea of change.”
Founder and executive director of nonprofit therapy group A Home Within, Heineman has practiced psychotherapy with adults, families and children for more than 35 years. Heineman has formed a new model of providing therapy for foster youth that stresses a relationship-based approach. In “Relational Treatment of Trauma,” Heineman draws upon her experience to address the role this therapy can play in filling a major void in the treatment foster care youth experience through the traumatic “consequences of repeated, unexpected and unexplained or unexplainable losses of caregivers.”
[For more of this story, written by Hope Wabuke, go to http://youthtoday.org/2016/01/...es-of-loss-and-hope/]
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