Assessing and Treating Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma

In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Lisa M. Amaya-Jackson, Ruth S. Gerson, and Sarah Vinson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Assessing and Treating Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma. Acknowledging the current gap between trauma-informed care and trauma treatment, top experts focus on areas such as key tenets of trauma intervention; psychopharmacology; building a sustainable trauma-informed system; trauma in infants and young children; disaster response and healing; childhood grief and trauma, and more.

• Contains 17 relevant, practice-oriented topics including critical aspects of trauma treatment in practice; primary and secondary prevention of child trauma; cognitive-behavioral approaches to trauma; trauma-informed intervention in schools; understanding and treatment community trauma; and more
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on assessing and treating children and adolescents exposed to trauma, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews