Healing Developmental Trauma in Families and Systems: A Visual Toolkit for Professionals

By Shoshanah Lyons and Helen Townsend

This book offers a compassionate, scientifically grounded roadmap for understanding and healing developmental trauma. Integrating insights from neurobiology, attachment, parts-based approaches, living experience and systems thinking, it shows how change becomes possible when the people and systems around a child learn to attune with sensitivity and courage. The authors weave clear explanation with compelling visuals to translate complex ideas into accessible, transformative tools for professionals.

Designed for anyone working with children and families, the book provides an evidence-informed, heart-to-heart, and systematic approach that takes in the child's whole landscape. Rather than viewing trauma 'symptoms' as pathology, the book reframes them as wise survival strategies shaped by context, relationships and history. With practical frameworks and ready-to-use downloadable resources, it supports readers to create environments where safety, regulation, connection, and meaning can flourish -opening the possibility for transformation and post-traumatic growth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785928856
• ISBN13: 9781785928857
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.