Your FBA is a Fantasy by Rick and Doris Bowman
The long-awaited book from Doris & Rick Bowman of Bowman Consulting Group is here: Your FBA is a Fantasy. This book is an amazing resource that just keeps on giving. In addition to the tools within the book, there are over 30 templates and other resources for creating trauma-informed Functional Behavioral Analyses and Behavior Support […]
The Biology of Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian
Dr. Aimie, an esteemed colleague of ATN, just wrote the trauma book so many have been looking for. Most trauma work focuses on your past story. Dr. Aimie focuses on your body and your biology now. She shows what constitutes a trauma and why our bodies hold onto the wounds of our past and the […]
New Reads for Fall/Winter 2025
It’s time to explore the MANY books out there…or almost out there…that you should be checking out this fall and winter. So grab one of these as a gift for the teacher, counselor or parent in your life…or for yourself, and curl up with these great trauma-informed, resilience-building reads. Available Now: Your FBA is a […]
Important New Trauma-Informed Books for Educators
So, I usually post my favorite new books in January. But this year there have been so many books related to trauma-informed education come out this summer, that I felt the need to let you know about these fabulous reads that could be used as professional learning or given as a gift to the teacher […]
New Books for 2024
Happy 2024! We’re back with some incredible trauma-informed, resilience-building books that we at the Attachment & Trauma Network would highly recommend you adding to your reading list. These books run the gamut of purposes, audiences, and styles. The one thing they have in common is they’re all based in solid trauma-informed theory and focused on […]
New Year – New Books
If your 2023 New Year’s Resolution is to read more trauma-informed, resilience-building books, we at the Attachment & Trauma Network have a list of some of our favorite reads that you may want to check out. These books run the gamut of purposes, audiences, and styles. The one thing they have in common is they’re […]
Monty’s Day in Court
Helping children from hard places If you’re reading this blog, chances are that you are either parenting a child from a hard place or know such a child in some other way. Sadly, coming from a hard place can mean being the victim of a crime. It may even mean that the child has to […]
Trauma-Informed Educators: Julie’s Reading List
As teachers and students head back to school, a flurry of inquiries has come into ATN about the “best” materials to help our schools create more trauma-informed educators. The Trauma-Sensitive School movement is still young, so in previous years I had a hard time answering that question, as no one had yet written most of […]
BRAVE: What I Chose to Tell
When I talk about BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, I sense assumptions from the outset. They are understandable – after all, the title says it’s about childhood trauma, right? Yet at the same time, I want to laugh and say, “Could you just read the book before you make up your mind?” […]
What I Learned -or Remembered- when I Read Brave
1) There are (at least) 2 kinds of being brave. One is an illusion in which we tell ourselves a version of events that we would like to be true. The other is the real deal. It involves facing our fears head on and living to tell the tale. In a future ATN blog post, […]