Educating Traumatized Children: Waldorf Education in Crisis Intervention

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Teachers and parents will both sense the relevance of this book in the modern educational landscape. Trauma, much as we might hope to relegate it to the purview of special educators and therapists, has become a daily facet of life.Gone are the days when only one or two children in a class were in need of "special help".Bernd Ruf found his calling at the time of the 2006 Lebanon War. Since then he has facilitated the development of "Emergency Education". He and teams of teachers, doctors, psychologists, and therapists have taken part in crisis interventions around the world. They work with psychologically traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster areas.Bernd Ruf presents an anthroposophical understanding of trauma itself. There is a an extensive examination of psychological trauma and healing the frozenness of trauma. The book contains many vignettes of their trauma work and concludes with emergency education as threshold education.Although the book is written primarily out of the experience of emergency educators in trauma situations, I would imagine that many classroom teachers and parents would find much they recognize in their "normal" world.Five stars. Great book.

This book is a must read for every therapist and teacher out there. it gives you a deeper insight into what is going on on a soul level of the child, and help you classify his trauma, and how to deal with it!Really one of the best book i have read about education and trauma.

La consegna è avvenuta nei tempi previsti.Gli argomenti trattati, scritti in un inglese semplice e fruibile, sono di grande rilievo e permettono di comprendere cosa avviene in un essere umano al verificarsi di un evento traumatico secondo la visione antroposofica della costituzione dell'uomo e fornisce indicazioni su come poter agire per aiutare, soprattutto i bambini, a superare l'evento traumatico.

Great book!! Well worth the money, and more people needed to take up these interventions; yesterdays newspapers describe the plight of around 600 children living in the horror at THE JUNGLE Calais .....one doesn't have to go far to see the catastrophic need for this book!

A must for any teacher/practitioner involved in the delivery of a Practical Skills Therapeutic Education curriculum working with children or young people with complex trauma...almost impossible to put down once you pick it up and start reading it!