Article Treatment manual for trauma-exposed youth:

Witnessing community violence and experiencing abuse in the home are two examples of interpersonal trauma that can have a devastating impact on children and adolescents. Recent research on the treatment of children exposed to interpersonal violence has focused on cognitive-behavioral interventions, often delivered in school settings. We describe the application of a new manual-based psychotherapy protocol for treating pediatric trauma in a middle school. Two case studies illustrate the protocol application to children from an inner-city neighborhood. The Stanford Cue-Centered Therapy (CCT) is a short-term, multimodal therapy for youths who have experienced trauma, focusing primarily on exposure to trauma-related cues. These cases provide early data on the feasibility and effectiveness of providing CCT for high-risk youth within a school setting and training of school mental-health personnel in the use of the Stanford CCT Manual. Keywords children, protocol, trauma, treatment, violence Recent large-scale disasters such as the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina have increasingly brought the need for treating survivors into public focus. Although research has supported mental-health interventions such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adult trauma survivors, the treatment of traumatized children and adolescents is still an emerging field. In addition to natural disasters and terrorist attacks, children and adolescents experience a wide range of potentially traumatic events, including sexual abuse, physical abuse and witnessin