Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children ─ Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Co-ordination and Body Awareness

Targeting people living and working with children who have been affected by early abuse and neglect--foster and adoptive parents, social workers, adoption staff, teachers and others who play an important part in the child's life, Lloyd brings together the relevant parts of sensory integration theory, how children process trauma and the impact it has on their sense of self and development of relationship. The book is about sensory integration and how it offers a way of understanding how early movement experience affects brain development. She cites the importance of addressing the physical element before psychological therapies are begun, and emphasizes the patterns of movement that children have missed out on in their development and how they can be helped to go back and build them. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Sarah Lloyd is a specialist occupational therapist and play therapist who has worked in CAMHS for 25 years. She has worked as part of specialist therapeutic teams for looked after children. She also offers training and consultation privately and through the adoption and fostering agency PAC-UK. Sarah is particularly experienced in working with children who have experienced trauma and neglect using a neurodevelopmental approach, bringing together trauma, attachment, and sensory integration theory and practice. She lives in the UK.