Treating psychic trauma in children: A preliminary discussion

✍ Scribed by Lenore C. Terr

• Book ID: 102925683
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1015 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490020103

✦ Synopsis

Treatment techniques for psychic trauma in children are as yet at a very preliminary stage. No generally accepted research study has established one certain technique as standard. Possibilities for treatment of childhood posttraumatic stress disorders cluster into family, group, and individual treatments. Among the individual treatment modalities available, play therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive and behavioral therapies, and medication hold the most promise. A combination of several of these treatments would. in most cases, be the best program available today.