Monday Sept 18, 11:30-6:30 ET (8:30 - 3:30 PT)
Tuesday, Sept 19, 11:30-6:30 ET (8:30 - 3:30 PT)
The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) is a skillbased,
group intervention that is aimed at relieving symptoms of Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and general anxiety among children
exposed to trauma. Children are provided with normalizing education about
common reactions to stress and trauma and learn skills such as relaxation, how
to challenge and replace upsetting thoughts, and social problem solving.
Children also work on processing traumatic memories and grief in both
individual and group settings. The program consists of ten, 1-hour group
sessions (6-8 children) usually conducted once a week in a school or mental
health clinic setting. The training includes: 1) An overview of child trauma and
PTSD and the mental health and academic consequences, 2) A review of the
history and evidence base of CBITS, 3) Thorough session by session
demonstrations and supervised practice of each core concept for child group
and individual sessions, including how to make the material culturally and
contextually relevant to the audience, 4) Review of parent and teacher sessions,
and 5) Engagement activities around implementation issues and site planning.
This is the essential CBITS training recommended for mental health
clinicians with some familiarity with child trauma, group therapy and cognitive
behavioral therapy.
