Discusses general and trauma-specific tools used to assess complex trauma in children and adolescents and how assessment guides treatment for this population.
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Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
Describes a few dismantling studies and the aspects of CPT being tested. She then explains how findings from these studies changed CPT.
Offers treatment providers and agency administrators information about how to partner with youth and families at each level of their organization.
Focuses on how therapists can handle the challenge of remaining attuned to intensely distressed clients while also recognizing and regulating their own stress reactions.
Presents, through dramatized therapy sessions, traumatized youth who are profoundly emotionally shut down or dissociative and how therapists can remain attuned to clients.
Addresses the influence of culture on mental health providers coping with secondary traumatic stress (STS) and the choices that clinicians make to seek, or not seek, support.
Provides a basic introduction to AF-CBT, as well as an introduction to the theories behind AF-CBT and how the different components of the model fit together. The presentation also describes the research support for AF-CBT.
Describes eligibility criteria that can be used to determine whether a family is appropriate for AF-CBT and the role of clinical assessment in AF-CBT, including recommended instruments.
Discusses findings from research on crossover youth and how traumatic stress plays a role in the trajectory of crossover youth, as well as implications for policy and practice.