Allegheny General Hospital's Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents serves children and families who experience traumatic or stressful events in their lives. This program provides prompt evaluation and treatment of children who have experienced a variety of traumatic life events, including abuse, witnessing violence, death of a family member and/or natural disasters. Major goals of the Center for Traumatic Stress are to alleviate serious symptoms and promote healthy coping responses in traumatized children and their families. The center is the only one of its kind in the region.
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NEW AT THE CENTER FOR TRAUMATIC STRESS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
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The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has developed Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG) educational materials for several consumer groups including parents, school personnel, mental health professionals, etc. but one cultural group's needs have not been adequately addressed, that of children of military famliies. This is an important gap to cover considering the fact that this group is currently experiencing a particularly high rate of traumatic loss. In response to the NCTSN's recent request for proposals in this regard, Judith Cohen, M.D. and Anthony Mannarino, Ph.D. have been awarded funding for their submission which proposes to develop and/or adapt culturally competent educational materials to better serve children in military famliies who are experiencing Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG). Intended audiences include surviving parents and other family members of children in military famlies who have experienced traumatic deaths; school personnel interacting wtih children in military families; and medical providers for children in military families. The project will include consumer consultants who will assist in adapting existing CTG Information Sheets and/or develoing new ones. The study will be operational through August 2008 and is expected to greatly further the Network's goals to enhance cultural competence.
Drs. Cohen and Mannarino continue their work on their latest SAMHSA study which is funded for four years effective September 30, 2005. The study is geared towards specific goal-oriented tasks including treatment adaptation of their child abuse and traumatic grief models, dissemination of their research findings, resource development, sustainability, and consumer collaboration.
Drs. Cohen and Mannarino continue to solidify their integral roles in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network with their high level of commitment and innovative research in the trauma field.
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This site was last updated on 04/16/08.
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Judith Cohen, M.D. and Anthony Mannarino, Ph.D. are Co-Principal Investigators of an NIMH-funded grant studying the effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy with children who have been exposed to domestic violence. This study is being conducted in collaboration with the Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh.
In September 2006, Drs. Cohen and Mannarino were awarded funding from NIMH for an administrative supplement to their domestic violence study. "Community TF-CBT for Children After Hurricane Katrina" is a two year study which will focus on developing a "risk" profile for children and adolescents based on PTSD symptoms and other factors that might predict which intervention would be best for them, and implementing and observing outcomes of two evidence-based models of therapy for trauma in private and parochial schools in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The interventions are Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS, a school-based intervention for groups of students) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT, a higher intensity community based model for parent and child).
Drs. Cohen and Mannarino, in collaboration with acclaimed researcher Esther Deblinger, Ph.D., are authors of the book Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents from Guilford Press. The book became available June 1, 2006. For more information, click to the "Order New Book" tab at the top of this page.
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