“Greenwald’s book combines the best elements of short-term, solution-oriented therapeutic approaches with focused trauma work. It offers a HIGHLY PRACTICAL, STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE to help individuals with assorted acting-out behaviors, and well-thought-out protocols to guide the clinician through the assessment and treatment process. The book is rich with specific, detailed and believable case examples. The book SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING for any clinician working with difficult populations, including troubled adolescents and perpetrators of family violence. Unlike traditional models of domestic violence treatment, Greenwald’s sequential model assumes that perpetrators are often victims themselves and that their needs and goals must be taken into account. It is BASED ON SOUND RESEARCH and has much in common with my own three-phase approach for domestic violence work. I highly recommend it.” In language that is clear and accessible to a wide range of clinician-practitioners, he has translated research and theory into comprehensible and pragmatic tactics for recognizing and dealing with the developmental consequences of trauma in the lives of children. Without polemic, he exposes the gaps in traditional therapeutic approaches as well as in “common sense” when it comes to an effective response to child trauma (for example, the naïve assumption that a simple approach of “processing trauma by talking about it” without preparing the child with cognitive tools for managing arousal is naïve and often counterproductive). His approach is respectful, both for the child client and the adults in that child’s life (parents and therapists, for example). Grounded in his understanding of the research on trauma and his clinical experience he offers up A POWERFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR THE READER.”