National 2-day Bounce Back Training

Bounce Back is a skill-based, group intervention that is aimed at relieving symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression among elementary aged (K-5th grade) children exposed to trauma. Children are provided with normalizing education about common reactions to stress and trauma and learn skills such as feelings identification, relaxation, helpful thinking, scheduling positive activities, building social support, and problem solving. Children also work on processing traumatic memories and grief in individual sessions with their group leader. The program consists of ten, 1-hour group sessions (4-6 children) usually conducted once a week in a school setting, 2-3 individual trauma narrative sessions, and a parent education session.