Trauma Specific Interventions

Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)

• Ages 0-5.
• Intervention for children who have experience at least one traumatic event: To support and strengthen the relationship between a child and his parent while restoring the child’s sense of safety, attachment, and appropriate affect and improving the child’s cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning.

Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

• Ages 2-7.
• In PCIT, parents are taught specific skills to establish a nurturing and secure relationship with their child while increasing their child’s prosocial behavior and decreasing negative behavior.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Children & Adolescents

• Ages 2-17.
• Designed to reduce trauma-related stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to improve overall mental health functioning.

Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

• Ages 3-17.
• Psychosocial treatment model designed to treat posttraumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems.  

The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)

• Ages 4-14.
• School-based, group, and individual intervention designed to reduce symptoms of PTSD, depression and behavioral problems.
• Published by UCLA.