Responding to the Needs of the Community: A Stepped-Care Approach to Implementing Trauma-Focused Interventions in Schools
Author: Lisa H. Jaycox, Ph.D.; Sheryl H. Kataoka, M.D., M.S.H.S..; Bradley D. Stein, M.D., Ph.D..; Marleen Wong, Ph.D..; Audra K. Langley, Ph.D..
Source: Volume 05, Number 04, Fall 2005 , pp.85-92(8)
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Abstract:
This paper describes the efforts of the Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program over the past seven years to develop trauma-focused school services to address these concerns, and the ways in which the community-basedparticipatory research process has lead to an expanded framework of what these interventions might entail. We will describe this process in four main phases: Development of the original CBITS program,which was designed to be delivered by school-based mental health clinicians; Evaluation of the CBITS program; Recent dissemination efforts; Latest efforts in adapting the CBITS program for delivery by non-mental health clinicians in schools with limited clinical resources.Keywords:
Affiliations:
1: RAND Corporation; 2: UCLA Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; 3: RAND Corporation; 4: Los Angeles Unified School District; 5: UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.