Materials
Treating Chronically Traumatized Children
- The Sleeping Dogs method.
- The second edition (Struik, 2019)
- ISBN-13: 978-0415717229
- ISBN-10: 0415717221
When children refuse or seem unable to talk about their traumatic memories, it might be tempting to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’. However, if left untreated, the memories of childhood abuse and neglect can have a devastating effect on the development of children and young people. How can these children be motivated and engage in trauma-focused therapy? Treating Chronically Traumatized Children: The Sleeping Dogs Method describes a structured method to overcome resistance and enable children to wake these sleeping dogs safely, so these children heal from their trauma.
Free downloads
Sleeping Dogs Barrier Tool
This tool is used to analyse cases on the barriers for trauma treatment and structure trauma-treatment planning.
Sleeping Dogs Development and Barrier Tool
This tool is a more elaborate tool, used to analyse cases on the barriers for trauma treatment as well as the child’s general developmental, and supports trauma-treatment planning.
Manual Barriers Form
This manual explains the meaning of the 19 questions in the Barriers Form.
Worksheets
This tool is used to analyse cases on the barriers for trauma treatment and structure trauma-treatment planning.
Window of Tolerance animation
Lionel Walters from Tasmania made this great animation for us to use!
Therapeutic Sleeping Dogs children’s books
Tom and Sophie discover a heater
This book supports psychoeducation with the heater metaphor for children with attachment difficulties.
Tom and Sophie find a valuable stone
This book support psychoeducation with the stone intervention (Struik, 2019, pp. 208- 209) to improve self-appreciation.
Other materials
CDES
CDES for Indigenous girls
A screening questionnaire for dissociative symptoms in children
CDES for Indigenous boys
A screening questionnaire for dissociative symptoms in children
References
Struik, A. (2019). Treating Chronically Traumatized Children: The Sleeping Dogs method(Second ed.). London, UK/ New York, NY: Routledge
Struik, A. (2018). The Sleeping Dogs Method to Overcome Children’s Resistance to EMDR Therapy: A Case Series. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 12(4), 224-241. doi:10.1891/1933-3196.12.4.224
Struik, A. (2017). The Trauma Healing Story. Healing Chronically Traumatised Children Through Their Families/Whanau. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 38(4), 613-626. doi:10.1002/anzf.1271
Struik, A., Lindauer, R. J., & Ensink, J. B. (2017). I Won’t Do EMDR! The Use of the “Sleeping Dogs” Method to Overcome Children’s Resistance to EMDR Therapy. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 11(4), 166-180. doi:10.1891/1933-3196.11.4.166
Struik, A. (2017). Treating Chronically Traumatised Children with the Sleeping Dogs Method: Don’t Let Sleeping Dogs Lie! Children Australia, 42(2), 93-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2017.13
Book review Grief Matters 2015
Book review Clinical Psychiatry 2015
Struik, A. (2016) The Sleeping Dogs ESTD Newsletter, 5 (3), Sept. estd.org
