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Assessing and Treating Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. The Clinics: Internal Medicine Volume 35-2

  • Book

  • April 2026
  • Region: North America
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 6252595
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

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Table of Contents

Trauma-Informed Systems of Care
Assessing Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma
Using the Core Concepts of Childhood Trauma as a Foundation for Evidence-Based Trauma Therapy of Children and Adolescents
Psychopharmacology for Trauma-Exposed Youth
Flipping the Script: Addressing Occupational Distress to Sustain Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma in Young Children and Their Families
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Child Trauma
Behavioral Health Care for Children Exposed to Disaster
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Parents
Trauma-Informed Interventions in Schools
Trauma and Pediatric Primary Care
Assessing and Treating Childhood Traumatic Loss
Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Intervention Implementation and Sustainment with Forcibly Displaced Communities: Trust, Engagement, and Bowls of Soup
Complex Trauma Interventions for Children and Adolescents
Trauma-Informed, Equity-Focused, and Community-Led Suicide Prevention and Healing
Trauma-Informed Care for Behaviorally Dysregulated Youth: Emergency Department, Inpatient and Residential Programs

Authors

Lisa M. Amaya-Jackson Distinguished Professor, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Ruth S. Gerson Clinical Associate Professor, Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, USA. Sarah Vinson Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, Georgia, USA.