About this Event
Join us for a great conversation with therapist Susan Caso, author of The Parent-Teen Connection: How to Build Lifelong Family Relationships and the Head of Advocacy Child Development & Protection at UNICEF and author of Trauma Proof: Healing, Attachment, and the Science of Prevention, Benjamin Perks on Friday, January 23rd at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location.
Registration includes the following options:
- A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store
We will have a limited supply of both of the speakers books for guests to purchase in store.
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
The Parent-Teen Connection: How to Build Lifelong Family Relationships
“This is a handbook to help us all address the mental health epidemic that is affecting our young people...of all ages.”—Shairi Turner, MD, MPH, CHO, Crisis Text Line
Teens need their parents now more than ever. Parents are the central influence in their teens' life and have an incredible ability to reassure and comfort them in times of distress. Right now a teen’s world is filled with social media noise and achievement pressures, resulting in high rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide. But hope exists. A parent’s ability to support their teen during the current milieu can be shaped by the emotional bond in their relationship.
Licensed therapist Susan Caso provides valuable insights and proven strategies to cultivate a “felt connectedness” in the family. As a clinician and a mom of three amazing kids, Susan knows raising teens can be met with growing pains, strife, and disconnection. The path to engagement and harmony at home can be baffling, but with new communication tools, Susan guides parents to build trust with their teens to overcome any obstacle. To strengthen the parent-teen relationship and safeguard your kids in today's world, your first resource is The Parent-Teen Connection.
Trauma Proof: Healing, Attachment, and the Science of Prevention
"Lucid, clear, visionary"—Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps The Score
An expert's inspiring, deeply personal account of how childhood trauma can be overcome.
From the moment they’re born, babies seek a loving parental attachment. When that connection is absent, it derails childhood development in ways that can last a lifetime. The annual health costs of illness related to child trauma for North America and Europe alone are 1.3 trillion dollars. Child trauma is much more widespread than previously thought and passes from one generation to the next. But that’s not the end of the story—there is overwhelming evidence that this intergenerational transmission can be disrupted.
So why isn’t the eradication of childhood trauma a tier-one public priority, like defense or growth?
In Trauma Proof, Benjamin Perks argues that it must be, and that we can tackle it as a public health problem like COVID-19, by 1) Making sure everyone is aware of the risk; 2) Preventing transmission; and 3) Opening pathways to healing.
Perks shows we have the tools to make these three things happen, and the evidence to show they work. The fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine have made huge leaps in the past 25 years. We now know what causes Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), how to reduce them, and how to address them. For the first time in history, we know child mistreatment is not inevitable.
Combining expert interviews and intensive reportage from Jamaica to Scotland, from Brooklyn to Birmingham, Perks shows the steps we can take to stem the epidemic of childhood trauma. He also shares his personal story of growing up in violent group homes, fathering a child at fifteen and finding his way, in his thirties to healing.
Trauma Proof is a rallying call to address child trauma as the public health crisis it is—because we can do better for kids, and we should.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Susan Caso, MA, LPC, helps people find the feeling of connectedness that creates heartfelt interactions. A sought-after therapist, consultant, and speaker with over twenty years in clinical practice, Susan has helped parents, teens, couples, and families create emotional safety to build stronger relationships.
Before opening Boulder Family Counseling in 2008, Susan counseled at-risk teens and adults at Catholic Charities home-based and outpatient counseling departments, and interned at Excelsior Youth Center in Aurora, Colorado, counseling adolescent girls in crisis intervention and stabilization programs.
Dedicating herself to eliminating stigma around mental health, Susan is a board member and the mental health director of The Liv Project, and consulted as technical and strategic advisor on the film My Sister Liv. Susan also contributed as a board member of Rise Against Suicide for over three years.
Susan holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education from the University of Colorado and undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Human Development from the University of Kansas. She studied Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics and was trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Les Greenberg.
Susan’s work has been featured in media outlets such as Mother.ly, Wait Until 8th, and The Hollywood Reporter.
Benjamin Perks works for the United Nations in New York campaigning on human rights and child development globally. For twenty-five years, Perks has worked on eradicating global barriers to child well-being, including poverty, hunger, disease, the mobilization of child soldiers, and population displacement. He has also been on a personal journey of healing from his childhood, spent living in the UK’s care system and on the streets. Benjamin is a Senior Fellow at the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham in the UK, which researches education policy on the character, social, and emotional development of children, and is an Associate Faculty Member at Oxford University Department of Social Policy and Innovation.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tattered Cover Colfax, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, United States
USD 7.25
