Making It Better - 2nd Edition by Barbara Oehlberg (Paperback)

About the Book

The trusted source for over 20 years--activities to help children process and heal from stressful and traumatic events.

Book Synopsis

The trusted source for over 20 years--activities to help children process and heal from stressful and traumatic events.

Review Quotes

"Making It Better supports the tremendous need to help students living in today's often traumatic world with overall social and academic achievement through the use of healing activities. Hands-on activities are provided that can be implemented by any school professional to assist students with focus, learning, and regulation."
-Caelan Kuban, PsyD, LMSW, CTC-S, director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, Starr Global Learning Network, and coauthor of Working with Grieving and Traumatized Children and Adolescents



"Making It Better supports the tremendous need to help students living in today's often traumatic world with overall social and academic achievement through the use of healing activities. Hands-on activities are provided that can be implemented by any school professional to assist students with focus, learning, and regulation."
--Caelan Kuban, PsyD, LMSW, CTC-S, director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, Starr Global Learning Network, and coauthor of Working with Grieving and Traumatized Children and Adolescents

About the Author

Barbara Oehlberg completed a graduate program in child development at the University of Akron in 1981, after receiving a degree in home economics from the University of Wisconsin and raising seven children. Since retirement in 1997, she has become a certified Child Trauma Consultant through The National Institute for Trauma & Loss in Children in Michigan and has presented to over two hundred agency and school staff development sessions.

As a family life specialist with Cleveland Public Schools, Barbara has seen firsthand how domestic violence, child abuse, and stress can affect children's behaviors and learning abilities. Recognizing that children learn violence primarily within their families, she combined her peace activism with her profession and created a program for the Ohio governor's office in 1983, titled "Parenting for Peaceful Families." She has facilitated that program in Ohio's schools, churches, and prisons.