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Evidence Base Update for Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Traumatic Events
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Child and adolescent trauma exposure is prevalent, with trauma exposure-related symptoms, including posttraumatic stress, depressive, and anxiety symptoms often causing substantial impairment. This article updates the evidence base on psychosocial treatments for child and adolescent trauma exposure completed for this journal by Silverman et al. (2008). For this review, we focus on 37 studies conducted during the seven years since the last review. Treatments are grouped by overall treatment family (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy), treatment modality (e.g., individual vs. group), and treatment participants (e.g., child only vs. child and parent). All studies were evaluated for methodological rigor according to Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology evidence-based treatment evaluation criteria (Southam-Gerow & Prinstein, 2014), with cumulative designations for level of support for each treatment family. Individual CBT with parent involvement, individual CBT, and group CBT were deemed well-established; group CBT with parent involvement and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) were deemed probably efficacious; individual integrated therapy for complex trauma and group mind–body skills were deemed possibly efficacious; individual client-centered play therapy, individual mind–body skills, and individual psychoanalysis were deemed experimental; and group creative expressive + CBT was deemed questionable efficacy. Advances in the evidence base, with comparisons to the state of the science at the time of the Silverman et al. (2008) review, are discussed. Finally, we present dissemination and implementation challenges and areas for future research.
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BackgroundPullmann, M. D., Lucid, L., Harrison, J. P., Martin, P., Deblinger, E., Benjamin, K. S., & Dorsey, S. (2018) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00280 · Cited by 20
“TF-CBT is an evidencebased treatment for mental health sequelae subsequent to trauma exposure (26).”
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“Therefore, a new special issue focusing on evidence-based treatments was published in 2014 (Southam-Gerow and Prinstein 2014) and D53 aimed to publish more updates on evidence-based treatments for various child and adolescent problems more regularly.”
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“Abbreviations EBT: Evidence-based treatment; PCIT: Parent-child interaction therapy; StaRI: Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies; TF-CBT: Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy; TIDieR: Template for Intervention Description and Replication.”
BackgroundInfluentialExamining the incidence of acute stress in pediatric trauma patients
Schauss, E., Hawes, K., Roberts, S., Clayton, J. M., Li, C., Littlejohn, A., Bartelli, D., & Williams, R. F. (2022) · Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open · doi:10.1136/tsaco-2022-000946 · Cited by 19
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“We use the exemplar of CBT for youth mental health as it has strong empirical support (Dorsey et al., 2017; Higa-McMillan et al., 2016; Hofmann et al., 2012; McCart & Sheidow, 2016) and because there have been nationwide implementation efforts designed to increase CBT use for youth (e.”
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“73 Whereas evidence-based treatments for trauma-exposed children and adolescents are available 74 and widely disseminated, 75 the efficacy of such interventions in genetically high-risk youths has to be better investigated.”
Childhood Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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“While several mental health treatments have been developed to ameliorate these trauma-related symptoms (e.g., Carr, 2019; Dorsey et al., 2020; Dorsey et al., 2017; Gutermann et al., 2016; Leenarts et al., 2013), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT; Cohen et al.”
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“Most notably, the current literature surrounding the treatment of youth experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms following trauma exposure is relatively distinct from that focused on treating OCS/OCD in youth [21, 22].”
Future Directions in Youth Irritability Research
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“, 2016) and traumatic stress (Dorsey et al., 2017), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in adolescents (Glenn et al.”
Family Life Education for Families Facing Acute Stress: Best Practices and Recommendations
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Childhood Trauma as a Public Health Issue
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Patterns of Child Mental Health Service Utilization Within a Multiple EBP System of Care
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“Other empirically supported treatments that have been found effective in addressing traumatic stress symptoms include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), and prolonged exposure (PE) adapted for adolescents 79,80 .”
Family-Based Prevention of Child Traumatic Stress
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“TF-CBT has a strong evidence base and is considered a gold standard treatment for child traumatic stress including PTSD. 38 At least 13 randomized controlled trials have shown the program’s efficacy in reducing children’s symptoms of PTSD, depression, and behavior problems, compared to attention or waitlist controls o…”
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“Given the use of exposure as a hallmark feature of behavioral interventions for PTSD (Dorsey et al., 2017), greater RSA withdrawal during TF-CBT was not unexpected.”
BackgroundInfluentialThe promise of compassion-based therapy as a novel intervention for adolescent PTSD
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“…Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR; John-Baptiste Bastien et al., 2020; Mavranezouli et al., 2020; Smith et al., 2019; Dorsey et al., 2017; Morina et al., 2016; Haller et al., 2016; Watts et al., 2013).”
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“Even if there is evidence for the positive effects of psychoeducation, exposure and the use of the trauma narrative, there is still a need for further research to identify the components that are effective and that create changes both in TRT and in other similar programmes [48–52].”
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“There is strong evidence for the efficacy of exposure in treating anxiety disorders and PTSD (Dorsey et al., 2017; Higa-McMillan et al., 2016).”
BackgroundInfluential
Metadata
- Authors
- Dorsey, S., McLaughlin, K. A., Kerns, S. E. U., Harrison, J. P., Lambert, H. K., Briggs, E. C., Revillion Cox, J., & Amaya-Jackson, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dorsey, Shannon
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-10-19
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 303-330
- ISSN
- 1537-4416 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-4424
- OpenAlex
- W4252106176
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 118
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 30.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Digital Commons - DU (University of Denver) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (K01 MH092526, R01 MH095749, R01 MH096633, R01 MH103291, R25 MH080916)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Therapy and Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- psychosocial interventions, post-traumatic stress, cognitive behavioral therapy, parental involvement, group therapy, EMDR, complex trauma, play therapy, psychoanalysis, treatment efficacy, dissemination and implementation
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