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Parent-Led Stepped Care Trauma Treatment: Parents' Experiences With Helping Their Child Recover.
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Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma . Dec2023, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p1065-1077. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Purpose: There is a need for interventions for traumatized children that are easily accessible and effective, and that involve parents directly in the recovery process. To meet this challenge, stepped care trauma-focused cognitive behavioral treatment (SC TF-CBT), which consists of a parent-led therapist-assisted intervention as the first step, was developed. Parent-led trauma-treatment is a promising, but novel approach. The aim of this study was therefore to gain knowledge on how parents experience the model. Methods: Parents who participated in a SC TF-CBT feasibility study were consecutively recruited and interviewed with semi-structured interviews, which were then analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results: The parents described that the intervention gave them insights that led to a sense of parental agency. Through the analysis we identified and labelled four themes: (i) understanding my child: how the trauma has affected my child and our relationship; (ii) understanding myself: how my reactions have stood in the way of helping my child; (iii) gaining competence: how to learn specific tasks that were not part of my normal parenting skills; and (iv) receiving support: how guidance, warmth and encouragement was necessary. Conclusions: The results from this study show how the shifting of therapeutic tasks to parents may facilitate parental empowerment and improve the parent-child relationship. This knowledge may guide clinicians on how to provide support to parents so they can take a leading role in their child's recovery process after trauma. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04073862. Retrospectively registered 03 June 2019 (first patient recruited May 2019), https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04073862. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *TREATMENT of emotional trauma
*TREATMENT of post-traumatic stress disorder
*PARENT attitudes
*PSYCHOLOGY of parents
*SOCIAL support
*CONVALESCENCE
*RESEARCH methodology
*INTERVIEWING
*EXPERIENCE
*PHENOMENOLOGY
*PARENTING
*ABILITY
*TRAINING
*RESEARCH funding
*PARENT-child relationships
*THEMATIC analysis
*COGNITIVE therapy
*REFLECTION (Philosophy)
*CHILDREN
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19361521
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173924323
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-023-00537-x