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The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) is a brief, evidence-based trauma-focused mental health treatment for children and adolescents that was developed at the Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center. Created specifically to be implemented soon after a potentially traumatic event or formal disclosure of physical or sexual abuse (such as in a forensic interview), CFTSI focuses on increasing family support for the child, enhancing communication between the child and caregiver about the child’s symptoms, and providing skills to help children and families cope with and master trauma reactions. CFTSI also offers the opportunity for symptom reduction and a seamless introduction to longer-term treatment and other mental health interventions when needed..
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The original model as evaluated in the RCT was described as having four sessions with the possible addition of two to three sessions, when indicated, to address additional needs of the child, caregiver, or both. In this earlier version of CFTSI, what are now Sessions 2 and 3 were conducted on the same day. As CFTSI was disseminated into a broader array of clinical settings, clinicians found it was less problematic logistically to schedule these two sessions on separate days. As a result, CFTSI is now described as a five- to eight-session model.
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Epstein, C., Hahn, H., Berkowitz, S., Marans, S. (2017). The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention. In: Landolt, M., Cloitre, M., Schnyder, U. (eds) Evidence-Based Treatments for Trauma Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46138-0_7
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