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Treating Complex Trauma in Children and Their Families
An Integrative Approach
- Cheryl B. Lanktree - University of Southern California, USA
- John N. Briere - University of Southern California, USA
January 2016 | 296 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
“This is a must-read for clinicians who help traumatized children and their families. Lanktree and Briere have developed and tested an accessible, integrated, assessment-driven model that recognizes the ample impact of trauma on young children in different social contexts. A valuable alternative to rigidly manualized treatments, this book relies on clinical judgment and customized planning.”
Eliana Gil
Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education
One of the few books on the treatment of psychological trauma in children that provides specific, in-depth individual, group, and family therapy interventions for complex psychological trauma, this practical book focuses on the treatment of 6-12 year-old children and their family members. The authors employ an evidence-based, yet flexible and individualized treatment model, Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Children (ITCT-C), as they address the use of play therapy and other expressive approaches, attachment processing, multi-target titrated exposure, mindfulness techniques, psychoeducation, and affect regulation skill development, as well as interventions with family/caretaker and community systems. The authors emphasize a culturally sensitive and empowering perspective, one that addresses the effects of social marginalization and supports not only recovery, but also posttraumatic growth. Clinical examples and specific tools, such as the Assessment Treatment Flowchart (ATF-C), illustrate how assessment can be used to guide individualized and developmentally-appropriate interventions.
Eliana Gil
Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education
One of the few books on the treatment of psychological trauma in children that provides specific, in-depth individual, group, and family therapy interventions for complex psychological trauma, this practical book focuses on the treatment of 6-12 year-old children and their family members. The authors employ an evidence-based, yet flexible and individualized treatment model, Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Children (ITCT-C), as they address the use of play therapy and other expressive approaches, attachment processing, multi-target titrated exposure, mindfulness techniques, psychoeducation, and affect regulation skill development, as well as interventions with family/caretaker and community systems. The authors emphasize a culturally sensitive and empowering perspective, one that addresses the effects of social marginalization and supports not only recovery, but also posttraumatic growth. Clinical examples and specific tools, such as the Assessment Treatment Flowchart (ATF-C), illustrate how assessment can be used to guide individualized and developmentally-appropriate interventions.
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Effects of Complex Trauma in Children
Chapter 3: Central Aspects of ITCT-C
Chapter 4: Assessment of Complex Trauma
Chapter 5: The Assessment-Treatment Flowchart for Children (ATF-C) and the Problems-to-Components Grid for Children (PCG-C)
Chapter 6: Characteristics and Tools of the Therapy Environment
Chapter 7: Relationship Building and Support
Chapter 8: Safety Interventions
Chapter 9: Psychoeducation
Chapter 10: Advocacy and Systems Interventions
Chapter 11: Distress Reduction and Affect Regulation Training
Chapter 12: Facilitating Positive Identity
Chapter 13: Cognitive and Emotional Processing
Chapter 14: Relational/Attachment Processing
Chapter 15: Interventions With Caretakers
Chapter 16: Family Therapy
Chapter 17: School-Based Adaptation of ITCT-C
Chapter 18: Supervision and Therapist Self-Care
Appendix
References
Index
