Treating Children with Trauma: An Evidence Based Curriculum

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份申请，旨在针对MH PA-08-080提交以创伤为中心的儿童CBT课程开发提案，邀请申请专注于验证行为治疗培训的项目。到目前为止，社会工作者在社区中提供最多的心理健康服务。社会工作从业人员致力于改善低收入和服务不足的少数民族人口的服务。然而，目前很少有课程教授评估良好的干预措施。临床医生必须在毕业后重新培训，导致相当大的劳动力效率低下。我们的目标是针对硕士水平的教育，教授行之有效的心理健康干预措施。童年创伤太常见了，可能会有严重的后遗症。流行病学研究表明，美国高达68%的儿童经历过创伤事件。有创伤史的儿童在治疗物质使用障碍（SUD）和青少年犯罪的项目中所占比例不成比例。早期识别和治疗PTSD症状可能会预防青少年更严重的行为问题。以创伤为中心的CBT（TF-CBT）是一种经过良好评价的行为治疗方法，被证明是有效的。Kimberly Hoagwood博士，这个项目的Co-I，已经在纽约州培训了800多名TF-CBT临床医生。在这个应用程序中，我们建议将这种培训扩展到硕士水平的社会工作学生。哥伦比亚大学社会工作学院每年招收350名硕士生。许多学生在监督临床医生的现场机构工作，他们接受了TF-CBT的培训，我们将与这些机构合作。与Hoagwood博士和TF-CBT的共同开发者Judith Cohen博士合作，我们计划1）开发和实施一个向社会工作学生教授TF-CBT的课程，2）开发和实施一个评估程序来测试我们课程的有效性，3）开发和实施一个传播计划。南威尔士大学有一个强大的学术研究师资队伍，并致力于将研究测试的治疗方法带入硕士生的课堂。TF- CBT的成功发展将是这一努力的重要一步，也是其他社会工作教育项目的典范。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application is for a proposal for curriculum development of Trauma-focused CBT for children is submitted in response to MH PA-08-080, inviting applications for projects focused on training in validated behavioral treatments. Social workers provide by far the most mental health services in the community. Social work practitioners are dedicated to improving services for low income and underserved minority populations. However, few programs currently teach well evaluated interventions. Clinicians must be retrained after graduation, resulting in considerable workforce inefficiencies. Our goal is to target masters' level education to teach proven efficacious mental health interventions. Childhood trauma is all too common with potentially serious sequelae. Epidemiologic studies indicate up to 68% of children in the US experience traumatic events. Children with trauma histories are disproportionately represented in programs that treat substance use disorders (SUD) and juvenile delinquency. Early recognition and treatment of PTSD symptoms could potentially prevent more severe behavioral problems in youth. Trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) is a well evaluated behavioral treatment shown to be effective. Dr. Kimberly Hoagwood, Co-I on this project, has trained over 800 clinicians in TF-CBT across NY state. In this application we propose to extend this training to masters level social work students. Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) enrolls 350 masters' students each year. Many students work in field agencies supervising clinicians have been trained in TF-CBT and we will collaborate with these agencies. Working with Dr. Hoagwood and Dr. Judith Cohen, co-developer of TF-CBT, we plan to 1) develop and implement a curriculum for teaching TF-CBT to social work students, 2) develop and implement an evaluation procedure to test effectiveness of our curriculum, and 3) develop and implement a dissemination program. CUSSW has a strong academic research faculty and a commitment to bringing research tested treatments into the masters' students' classrooms. Successful development of TF- CBT will be a major step in this effort and a model for other social work educational programs.