Evidence-Based Treatments for Trauma Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Introduction.- Part I: Basics: The diagnostic spectrum of trauma-related disorders in children and adolescents.- Epidemiology of trauma and trauma-related disorders in children and adolescents.- Childhood trauma as a public health issue.- Assessment of trauma-related disorders in children and adolescents.- Psychological and biological theories of child and adolescent traumatic stress disorders.- Part II: Interventions: Early interventions.- Child Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI).- Trauma-focussed Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).-  Cognitive Therapy.- Prolonged Exposure Therapy Narrative Exposure Therapie (KIDNET).- STAIR-A Narrative Therapy.- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.- Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC).- Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPT).- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).- Trauma Systems Therapy (TST).- Pharmacological treatment.- Part III: Settings: Interventions in medicalsettings.- Residential care and psychiatric inpatient care.- Juvenile justice and forensic settings.- School-based interventions.- Post-conflict settings.- Part IV: Summary and conclusions: How to treat children and adolescents with trauma-related disorders.

Markus A. Landolt, Ph.D., is Head of Pediatric Psychology at the University Children's Hospital Zurich and Professor of Child and Adolescent Health Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main areas of research are child and family psychotraumatology and pediatric psychology. He has published more than 130 papers, 17 book chapters and 2 books. He currently serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology and is a board member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Besides his research activities, he works as a clinician with traumatized children, adolescents and their families since the 1990s. He was the recipient of the Falk-von-Reichbach Award from the German speaking Society of Traumatic Stress Studies in 2005 and was awarded Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2010.

Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of Research of the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division at the Palo Alto VA Health Care Services. She is also Clinical Professor (affiliate) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her research and clinical work for the past 20 years has focused on the long-term effects of childhood and chronic trauma on social and emotional functioning. She is past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 working group on trauma-spectrum disorders. She is a recipient of several honors related to service in New York City following 9-11 and was an advisory committee member for the National September 11 Memorial Museum. She is lead author of the book Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life and co-author of Grief in Childhood: A Guide to Treatment in Clinical Practice.

Ulrich Schnyder, M.D., psychiatrist and licensed psychotherapist. Professor of psychiatry and

"This comprehensive book, focused on evidence-based treatments for trauma-related disorders in children and adolescents, is an outstanding review of the literature. ... The intended audience includes clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and other mental health clinicians. ... This is an excellent resource for any clinicians who encounter patients with trauma-related disorders. ... This is a welcome addition to the psychiatric literature." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2017)