The Child Trauma Handbook is a comprehensive plain-language guide to treatment of trauma-exposed children and adolescents, and those with trauma or loss-related issues. This no-nonsense manual helps the reader understand how and why kids' behaviors can be related to their history of trauma while teaching practical hands-on clinical skills and interventions. Informally presented and easy-to-read, the user-friendly text includes a fifty-seven page instructor's manual and CD (featuring a test bank and chapter slide shows), illustrative case studies, recommended reading lists, treatment regimes, discussion questions, useful handouts, exercises, and an annotated bibliography, all in an 8.25” x 10.75” format that pulls together all aspects of working with children to become a full-spectrum, empirically based, trauma-informed treatment model. Clinicians as well as paraprofessional workers such as case managers, probation officers, and parents will find this to be an essential, all-encompassing source for effective treatment of children and adolescents in need.