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Over the past decade, the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program has developed a school-based intervention program for children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma and/or traumatic loss, and who suffer from chronic distress and related impairments in academic, peer and family functioning. The program includes a systematic method for screening a student body, a manualized 16–20 week trauma/grief focused group psychotherapy protocol, adjunctive individual and family therapy and specialized measures to assess symptom reduction and adaptive functioning. This article provides a description of the Program, focusing on the group therapy component and the conceptual model that has guided the design of the assessment tools and treatment strategies.
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Saltzman, W.R., Steinberg, A.M., Layne, C.M. et al. A Developmental Approach to School-Based Treatment of Adolescents Exposed to Trauma and Traumatic Loss. Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy 11, 43–56 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014789630162
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