The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) is designed to raise the standard of care nationwide for youth and families who have experienced trauma by raising the standard of education and training in core principles of childhood traumatic stress for their care providers.
A major initiative undertaken by the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) and its partners in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the CCCT is being implemented across the US in settings that include community-based mental health centers; teaching hospitals; graduate schools; terminal undergraduate programs; and internship, residency, and post-doctoral training programs. Many sites that have adopted the CCCT implement it in conjunction with training on manualized interventions.
The CCCT is an experiential learning tool that engages learners in a small-group setting to discuss and reason their way through detailed case studies. The Curriculum uses a highly interactive problem-based approach to help learners acquire trauma-informed knowledge and skills in critical reasoning, judgment, and decision-making. Instead of scripted lessons, the Curriculum contains a variety of elements designed to be flexibly incorporated by trained facilitators to achieve specific learning objectives.
For a more detailed overview and introduction to the Core Curriculum, click here [2]. For answers to frequently asked questions about the Core Curriculum, click here [3]. To access a series of online interactive lessons explaining the Core Concepts in greater detail, and other materials on the CCCT, visit the NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma [4]. To access a Core Curriculum case vignette (Ella) that the Core Curriculum Interactive Learning Group adapted to teach learners how to use the 12 Core Concepts as lenses to critically reason through a case study, click here [5].
Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/12-core-concepts-concepts-understanding-traumatic-stress-responses-children-and-families
[2] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/core-curriculum-on-childhood-trauma-an-introduction-and-overview
[3] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/answers-to-frequently-asked-questions-the-nctsn-core-curriculum-on-childhood-trauma
[4] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/12-core-concepts-online-interactive-course
[5] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/ccct-ella-case-study-for-applying-the-12-core-concepts