The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog Book Study
About the Course
We will do a book study on "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" to discuss trauma, how it affects children, and how we as educators can understand this and provide simple ideas to use in our relationships with all kids.
Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz wrote this book trying to seek balance between detailed individual stories of individual children experiencing trauma and the teaching of scientific material. It is a fine line, and for some readers the intensity or complexity can be too much.
The authors' note: "If you are reading this book for first time and have a history of traumatic experience, be aware that it does contain some extremely disturbing material. Pace yourself accordingly."
Required Text:
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz