Stepping Together for Children After Trauma (ST-CT): Feasibility and Predictors of Outcome of a Parent-led, Therapist Assisted Treatment.

Stepping Together for Children after Trauma (ST-CT) is the first step of the promising intervention Stepped Care CBT for Children after Trauma. In ST-CT, the task of leading treatment is partially shifted to the parents, and the child and parent work together to complete therapeutic tasks from a workbook with therapist supervision. We aimed to investigate the feasibility of ST-CT in Norwegian first line services and explore child factors predicting outcome.

Changes in posttraumatic stress symptoms, cognitions, and depression during treatment of traumatized youth.

Objective: Although there is compelling evidence that trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an effective treatment for traumatized youth, we know less about the mechanisms contributing to symptom reduction. To improve the understanding of change mechanisms in TF-CBT, this paper investigates the possible bi-directional longitudinal relationship between changes in posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), cognitions and depression in a clinical sample of traumatized youth.

Methods: The study includes 79 youth (M age = 15.