Alternatives for Families - A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Modality:
Individual,
Family
AF-CBT is a trauma-informed, evidence-based treatment designed to improve the relationships between children and caregivers.
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Interventions
The intervention fact sheets linked from this page offer descriptive summaries of some of the interventions developed and/or implemented by members of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. This list does not present a comprehensive catalog of all relevant interventions developed and available for treating child traumatic stress.
For many interventions, the developer of the treatment or service approach has also provided a culture-specific summary, outlining how the intervention has been adapted for and used with various cultural groups. Training Guidelines are also provided for many interventions, specifying training requirements, recommendations, minimum standards, and other considerations for those seeking to learn a new intervention or practice.
Assessment-Based Treatment for Traumatized Children: Trauma Assessment Pathway
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Systems
TAP is a treatment model that incorporates assessment triage and essential components of trauma treatment into clinical pathways.
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up
Modality:
Individual,
Family
ABC is a parent/child treatment approach designed to help caregivers provide nurturing care and engage in synchronous interactions with their infants. ABC helps caregivers re-interpret children's behavioral signals so that they can provide nurturance through parent coaching sessions.
Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competence: A Comprehensive Framework
Modality:
Individual,
Systems
ARC is a framework for intervention with youth and families who have experienced multiple and/or prolonged traumatic stress.
Bounce Back: An Elementary School Intervention for Childhood Trauma
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Group
BB is a cognitive-behavioral, skills-based, group intervention to teach elementary school children exposed to stressful and traumatic events skills to cope with and help recover from their traumatic experiences.
Care Process Model for Pediatric Traumatic Stress
Modality:
Individual
CPM is a brief screening and response protocol guiding the identification of, and response to, traumatic stress in children seen in healthcare and other pediatric settings, such as primary care clinics and Children’s Advocacy Centers.
Child Adult Relationship Enhancement
Modality:
Family,
Systems
CARE is a trauma-informed set of skills that can be used by any adult in any setting who interacts with children and teens who have experienced trauma. It is based on several evidence-based parenting programs, including PCIT, Incredible Years, Helping the Non-compliant Child, and PMTO.
Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Systems
CFTSI is a brief (5‐8 session), evidence‐based early intervention for children 7 to 18 years old that reduces traumatic stress reactions and the onset of PTSD. CFTSI is implemented within 30-45 days following a traumatic event or the disclosure of physical or sexual abuse.
Child Development-Community Policing Program
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Systems
CDCP is a model of secondary prevention that provides crisis intervention and follow-up community- and clinic-based clinical and collaborative interventions for exposed children.
Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Systems
CPP is an intervention model for children aged 0-6 who have experienced at least one traumatic event and/or are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder.
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Systems
CBITS is a skills-based, child group intervention that is aimed at relieving symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and general anxiety among children exposed to multiple forms of trauma.
Combined Parent Child Cognitive-Behavioral Approach for Children and Families At-Risk for Child Physical Abuse
Modality:
Individual,
Family,
Group
CPC-CBT is a short-term, strengths-based therapy program for children ages 3-17 and their parents (or caregivers) in families where parents engage in a continuum of coercive parenting strategies.