Early Childhood Interrupted equips readers with a trauma-informed framework for understanding children and teens shaped by early adversity and the practical tools to help them heal.
Brooke Osborn brings an integrated Christian counseling perspective to explore how developmental trauma-arising from experiences such as abuse, neglect, loss, disrupted attachment, or chronic stress-impacts a child's brain, nervous system, behavior, and capacity for relationship.
Key features of
Early Childhood Interrupted:
- Focuses on developmental trauma, a type of trauma that is ongoing throughout early childhood rather than a one-time event
- Makes complex neurological and psychological concepts understandable for parents and other caregivers who do not have advanced clinical training
- Provides school engagement guidance that addresses how developmental trauma affects academic performance and how educators can become active participants in a child's healing
- Helps caregivers understand and regulate their own nervous system responses, especially as it relates to their interactions with children
- Provides an ideal resource for the foster and adoption community that is also applicable as a textbook for counseling, social work, and Christian ministry programs
Rather than asking "What's wrong with this child?" this book equips readers to consider "What has this child experienced, and how has it shaped the way they relate to others?"
Early Childhood Interrupted gives parents, caregivers, counselors, social workers, pastors, and teachers the understanding and interventions needed to help children heal and gently guide them back onto their developmental track.
