@article{ref1,
title="Implementation of CBT for youth affected by the World Trade Center disaster: Matching need to treatment intensity and reducing trauma symptoms",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2010",
author="",
volume="23",
number="6",
pages="699-707",
abstract="An implementation study of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) was conducted for traumatized youth in a postdisaster context. Headed by the New York State Office of Mental Health, the study targeted youth (N = 306) ages 5-21 affected by the World Trade Center disaster. They received either trauma-specific CBT or brief CBT skills depending upon the severity of trauma symptoms. Clinicians were trained to deliver these interventions and received monthly consultation. A regression discontinuity design was used to assess optimal strategies for matching need to service intensity. At 6-months postbaseline, both groups had improved. Rate of change was similar despite differences in severity of need. The implications for the implementation of evidence-based treatments postdisaster are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1002/jts.20594",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.20594"
}