Collaborative Treatment of Traumatized Children and Teens: The Trauma Systems Therapy Approach

For too many traumatized children and their families, chronic stressors such as poverty, substance abuse, and family or community violence - coupled with an overburdened care system - pose seemingly insurmountable barriers to treatment. This empowering book provides a user-friendly blueprint for making the most of limited resources to help those considered the “toughest cases.”

Evidence-based strategies are presented for effectively integrating individualized treatment with services at the home, school, and community levels. Written in an accessible, modular format with reproducible forms and step-by-step guidelines for assessment and intervention, the approach is grounded in the latest knowledge about child traumatic stress. It has been recognized as a treatment of choice by state mental health agencies nationwide.

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KEY POINTS
- In demand: Recognized as a treatment of choice by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
- Saxe et al., the model’s developers, train agencies and professionals nationwide.
- Accessible: sidebars, charts, reproducibles, and other tools are included.
- Can be implemented by both experienced and novice clinicians.
- TST succeeds where other models fail by intervening at multiple levels--the child, the high-risk social context, and the overburdened care system.
- Reader-friendly, empathic tone, from authors with experience treating the most challenging cases.

AUDIENCE: Therapists working with children and families with complex, multiple problems, including child psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, and professionals in related fields; researchers and graduate students interested in child therapy, PTSD, and child welfare.