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Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy [1]

TARGET is a strengths-based, present-centered, educational/psychotherapeutic intervention designed to prevent and treat traumatic stress disorders. The manualized program comprises a seven-step sequence of skills based on a psychobiological metamodel, the FREEDOM Steps, designed to enable participants to recognize, understand, and gain control of stress reactions by enhancing their adaptive capacities for emotion regulation, mental focusing, executive function, mindfulness, and engagement. Updated 2024.

Acronym: 
TARGET
Trauma Type: 
Complex Trauma
General
Modality: 
Individual, Family, Group, Systems
Targeted Populations: 
Youth (Ages 11+), families, parents, caregivers; for any type of trauma, including developmental, complex/polyvictimization
Fact Sheet [2]
Published in 2012
Source URL:https://www.nctsn.org/interventions/trauma-affect-regulation-guide-education-and-therapy

Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/interventions/trauma-affect-regulation-guide-education-and-therapy [2] https://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/interventions/trauma-affect-regulation-guide-for-education-and-therapy-2024.pdf