Amber Elliott
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 978-1-84905-339-6
£12.99
248 pages
Why can't my child behave is a question commonly voiced by foster carers and adopters who are struggling to manage the demands of parenting a child who has experienced developmental trauma.
In her book, Dr Amber Elliott, a chartered clinical psychologist, speaks eloquently about the roles of carers in enabling traumatised children to benefit from a positive parental relationship. She challenges the usual behavioural approach to parenting strategies that uses reward and punishment techniques. Instead, using the most recent neuroscientific research available, she has taken the typical types of behaviour often experienced by carers and has pulled together a simple series of tools, actions and statements that can help a carer start to respond more effectively to the child. The challenging behaviours identified include attention seeking, rage outbursts, lying, sexualised behaviour and difficult sibling relationships. All of which will resonate with many carers.
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