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- Title
Implementation of CBT for youth affected by the World Trade Center disaster: Matching need to treatment intensity and reducing trauma symptoms.
- Abstract
An implementation study of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) was conducted for traumatized youth in a postdisaster context. Headed by the New York State Office of Mental Health, the study targeted youth ( N = 306) ages 5-21 affected by the World Trade Center disaster. They received either trauma-specific CBT or brief CBT skills depending upon the severity of trauma symptoms. Clinicians were trained to deliver these interventions and received monthly consultation. A regression discontinuity design was used to assess optimal strategies for matching need to service intensity. At 6-months postbaseline, both groups had improved. Rate of change was similar despite differences in severity of need. The implications for the implementation of evidence-based treatments postdisaster are discussed.
- Subjects
YOUTH; COGNITIVE therapy; NEW York (State). Office of Mental Health; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; EMOTIONAL trauma
- Publication
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2010, Vol 23, Issue 6, p699
- ISSN
0894-9867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jts.20594