Treatment approaches to child PTSD

ABSTRACT

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 tretament modalitties 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 (AU)