![]() ![]() ![]() TF-CBT’s joint sessions allow the child and caregiver to practice the skills they learned in their individual sessions. The caregiver’s sessions involve learning stress management, behavior management, and communication skills that help them support the young person while addressing their own distress associated with the trauma. “When kids are traumatized, they often believe it’s part of who they are, but it’s our job to show them it’s just something bad that happened to them.” As one of the co-founders of TF-CBT, Anthony Mannarino, says, TF-CBT also addresses the shame that many young people feel as a result of trauma and helps them understand that they are not to blame for the harm that occurred. These sessions help the child process traumatic memories, address difficult thoughts and behavioral issues and develop healthy coping and interpersonal skills. TF-CBT sessions may take place in outpatient mental health facilities, hospitals, group homes, schools, community-based settings and family homes.ĭuring the course of 8 to 25 sessions, which are 50 to 90 minutes long, the TF-CBT therapist meets individually and together with the child and nonoffending caregiver. Three doctors developed TF-CBT 25 years ago while working with children and adolescents who had been sexually abused. ![]()
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