Trauma Systems Therapy in Residential Settings: Improving Emotion Regulation and the Social Environment of Traumatized Children and Youth in Congregate Care

dc.contributor.authorBrown, A. D., McCauley, K., Navalta, C. P., & Saxe, G. N.
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-29T16:48:15Z
dc.date.available2018-08-29T16:48:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractAlthough abundant evidence exists indicating the prevalence of trauma exposure among youth in residential care, few models exist for creating trauma-informed milieu treatment. This article outlines the problem and describes the implementation of Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) in three residential centers. TST is unique in emphasizing youth emotions and behaviors as well as the role a distressed or threatening social environment may play in keeping a traumatized youth in a dysregulated state. This dual emphasis makes TST specifically appropriate to implementation in congregate care, focusing assessment and intervention strategies on both clinical treatment and the functioning of the therapeutic milieu itself. Data are reported on incidents of the use of physical restraint; numbers of disrupted foster care placements following discharge from residential treatment; and scores on psychometric measures of children’s functioning and emotion regulation capacity. Knowledge gained through TST implementation in these three residential centers has important implications for developing a model of trauma-informed congregate care.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBrown, A. D., McCauley, K., Navalta, C. P., & Saxe, G. N. (2013). Trauma Systems Therapy in residential settings: Improving emotion regulation and the social environment of traumatized children and youth in congregate care. Journal of family violence, 28(7), 693-703.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10896-013-9542-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3929
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Family Violenceen_US
dc.subjecttrauma exposureen_US
dc.subjectResidential treatmenten_US
dc.subjectTrauma systems therapyen_US
dc.titleTrauma Systems Therapy in Residential Settings: Improving Emotion Regulation and the Social Environment of Traumatized Children and Youth in Congregate Careen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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