Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults

A reader friendly guide to treating traumatized adolescents full of case studies and handouts for training.

Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults is the first empirically-validated, multi-component manual to guide practitioners and students in the treatment of multi-traumatized adolescents and young adults. Acclaimed clinician-researchers John Briere and Cheryl Lanktree outline a hands-on, culturally-sensitive approach to the most challenging of young clients: those suffering from complex trauma histories, multiple symptoms, and, in many cases, involvement in a range of problematic behaviors. This modelIntegrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A), integrates a series of approaches and techniques, which are adapted according to the youth′s specific symptoms, culture, and age. Components include relationship-building, psychoeducation, affect regulation training, trigger identification, cognitive processing, titrated emotional processing, mindfulness training, collateral treatments with parents and families, group therapy, and system-level advocacy.

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1. Introduction
Section I: Complex Trauma Outcomes and Assessment
2. Complex Trauma in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
3. Assessment
4. Completing and Using the Assessment-Treatment Flowchart for Adolescents (ATF-A)
Section II: Overview of Treatment
5. Central Aspects of ITCT-A
6. From Assessment to Intervention: The Problems-to-Components Grid (PCG)
7. Sequence and Session-Level Structure of ITCT-A
Section III: Treatment Components
8. Relationship Building and Support
9. Safety Interventions
10. Psychoeducation
11. Distress Reduction and Affect Regulation Training
12. Cognitive Processing
13. Trigger Identification and Intervention
14. Titrated Exposure
15. Relational Processing
16. Interventions for Identity Issues
17. Family Therapy
18. Interventions With Caretakers
19. Group Sessions
20. Three Case Examples
21. Treatment Outcome Results
22. Summary
References
Section IV: Appendices
Appendix I: Intitial Trauma Review- Adolescent Version (ITR-A)
Appendix II: ATF-A Assessment Locator
Appendix III: Assessment- Treatment Flowchart: Adolescent Version (ATF-A)
Appendix IV: Problems-to-Components Grid (PCG)
Appendix V: Written Homework About My Trauma
Appendix VI: What Triggers Me? (The Trigger Grid)
Appendix VII: Outlines for Two ITCT-A Therapy Groups