Summary
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The authors’ unique evidence-based treatment model provides therapists with a structured, yet flexible approach to treating complex trauma in children. The book’s individualized, multi-modal, assessment-based approach for complex trauma provides guidelines that help the therapist to identify specific needs for each client, along with appropriate assessment and treatment interventions. A unique chapter on supervision and therapist self-care provides guidelines and information for therapists regarding supervision, management of countertransference, and self-care. Coverage attends to the concerns of socially marginalized children, as well as less deprived children and their families, reflecting the book’s philosophical inclusion of social and cultural issues in trauma treatment.
Assessment of Complex Trauma
Assessment of Complex Trauma
Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Children relies on assessment data from interviews, collaterals, and, when possible, psychological testing to inform the clinician as he or she completes the Assessment-Treatment Flowchart for Children (ATF-C). These data are important for several reasons:
- At intake, to evaluate the individual needs of the traumatized child and to suggest targets—both environmental and psychological—for interventions
- Over time, to track the child’s progress in treatment, in most cases at several-month intervals and at termination
- Using aggregate data, to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment model or program, and to support the sustainability of trauma-focused treatment via future funding
Assessment of trauma-related symptoms and problems can reveal which symptoms are responding to treatment and which need additional attention. ...
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