When Traumatic Stressors are Not Past, But Now: Psychosocial Treatment to Develop Resilience with Children and Youth Enduring Concurrent, Complex Trauma

dc.contributor.authorMcCrea, K. T., Guthrie, D., & Bulanda, J. J.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-03T16:51:01Z
dc.date.available2017-08-03T16:51:01Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractWhile providing school-based treatment for 450 urban impoverished children and youth from 2006-2014, we found implementing specific elements of PTSD treatment models reduced engagement and aggravated clients’ symptoms. Clients’ traumas were neither past nor singletype, but were multiple (complex) and unavoidably occurring concurrently with treatment, so we speculated that many trauma treatment elements needed revision to be effective. Using a participatory action research methodology, we developed a resilience-focused treatment model for concurrently-traumatized clients. Drawing from the strengths perspective, selfdetermination, and hope theories, key treatment elements revised here are triggers, re-enactment, avoidance, “silencing,” and dissociation. Treatment guidelines include creating a safe zone, entering clients’ worlds completely, frame flexibility, client self-determination of treatment agendas and duration, and pleasurable play.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMcCrea, K. T., Guthrie, D., & Bulanda, J. J. (2016). When traumatic stressors are not past, but now: psychosocial treatment to develop resilience with children and youth enduring concurrent, complex trauma. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 9(1), 5-16.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Tyson_Mccrea/publication/284787288_When_Traumatic_Stressors_are_Not_Past_But_Now_Psychosocial_Treatment_to_Develop_Resilience_with_Children_and_Youth_Enduring_Concurrent_Complex_Trauma/links/565cd48f08aeafc2aac722a8/When-Traumatic-Stressors-are-Not-Past-But-Now-Psychosocial-Treatment-to-Develop-Resilience-with-Children-and-Youth-Enduring-Concurrent-Complex-Trauma.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3464
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Child & Adolescent Traumaen_US
dc.subjecttrauma treatment modelsen_US
dc.subjectstrengths perspectiveen_US
dc.subjectimpoverished children and youthen_US
dc.subjectculturally-relevant servicesen_US
dc.titleWhen Traumatic Stressors are Not Past, But Now: Psychosocial Treatment to Develop Resilience with Children and Youth Enduring Concurrent, Complex Traumaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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