Trauma Room - Saving Dead-End Kids

Would you take a foster child into your home on Christmas Eve who was too uncontrollable for the state mental hospital? How do you fathom the extent of injury to the mind of an eight-year-old girl who has been raped and sodomized by her mothers male clientele? The most severe physical and emotional trauma befalls our most vulnerable youth, sending these kids into a maelstrom of psychosis and despair. These already traumatized kids are continually fed into programs that not only have miniscule success rates but usually compound the problem through ineffective treatments and the excessive use of medications.

Would you take a foster child into your home on Christmas Eve who was too uncontrollable for the state mental hospital? How do you fathom the extent of injury to the mind of an eight-year-old girl who has been raped and sodomized by her mothers male clientele? The most severe physical and emotional trauma befalls our most vulnerable youth, sending these kids into a maelstrom of psychosis and despair. These already traumatized kids are continually fed into programs that not only have miniscule success rates but usually compound the problem through ineffective treatments and the excessive use of medications.

Dave Zieglers book, Traumatic Experience and the Brain, clearly details the physical changes to a childs brain from such events. To develop a program to rescue the kids lost in a dead-end system, Dr. Ziegler applied his common-sense professionalism with the knowledge he has gained as both a foster parent and a child psychologist to these traumatized youth. The end result is a highly successful treatment program for these affected children that is eloquently chronicled in Traumatic Experience and the Brain.

Dave Ziegler is a nationally recognized speaker and author on childhood and attachment issues. His previous work, Raising Children Who Refuse to Be Raised, deals with many of the treatment options used in his program. Dr. Ziegler is the Executive Director of SCAR/Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment program for some of the most traumatized children in Oregon.

For copies of this book or to interview the author, call Acacia Publishing, Inc. toll free at 866.265.4553.