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Treating psychic trauma in children: A preliminary discussion
Author(s) -
Terr Lenore C.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490020103
Subject(s) - psychic , psychotherapist , psychodynamics , psychology , modalities , cognition , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , social science , pathology , sociology
Treatment techniques for psychic trauma in children are as yet at a very preliminary stage. No generally accepted research study has established one certain technique as standard. Possibilities for treatment of childhood post‐traumatic stress disorders cluster into family, group, and individual treatments. Among the individual treatment modalities available, play therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive and behavioral therapies, and medication hold the most promise. A combination of several of these treatments would, in most cases, be the best program available today.