Responding to Students with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Schools
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The prevalence of trauma exposure among youth is a major public health concern. Students who have experienced a traumatic event are at increased risk for academic, social, and emotional problems. School can be an ideal setting for mental health professionals to intervene with traumatized students, school staff, and parents both immediately following a traumatic event and when symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related mental health problems develop. This article describes evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder and outlines practical approaches to use in schools.
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An uncontrolled pre-post study showed that the psychosocial support intervention LPC for children after traumatic events was successful in reducing PTSD and depressive symptoms at post-intervention.
“An uncontrolled pre–post study [43] showed that the psychosocial support intervention LPC [42] for children after experiencing traumatic events, such as community disaster, emergency, or personal trauma, was successful in reducing PTSD and depressive symptoms at post-intervention.”
From Promoting Recovery from Disasters, Pandemics, and Trauma: A Systematic Review of Brief Psychological Interventions to Reduce Distress in Adults, Children, and Adolescents (2023) · cites this paper as [42]
The Practical Approaches section describes LPC as psychological first aid that provides support to children after a crisis. It does not report an uncontrolled pre–post study or post-intervention reductions in PTSD and depressive symptoms; searches for those study details found no such passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Kataoka, S., Langley, A. K., Wong, M., Baweja, S., & Stein, B. D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kataoka, Sheryl
- Venue
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 119-133
- ISSN
- 1056-4993 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3287974
- OpenAlex
- W2008305803
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH082712, P30MH082760)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Therapy and Development
- Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder, school-based intervention, evidence-based treatment
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Crisis Intervention, Female, Humans, Parents, Psychotherapy, Group, School Health Services, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Students, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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