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How evidence-based is your trauma treatment? Only 45 percent of graduate programs and 51 percent of internships that train psychology students to treat abused or otherwise traumatized children use Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), the approach regarded as meeting the highest standard of evidence, according to two studies published in the December issues of Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy and Training and Education in Professional Psychology, respectively. In particular, PsyD programs and unaccredited internships were most likely to teach treatments with lessthan-stellar research backing, the studies found. The researchers surveyed 201 graduate school programs and identified 27 empirically supported treatments for trauma, including TF-CBT, AbuseFocused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. A second survey of 137 child internship programs found that programs offer training in 13 empirically supported treatments as determined by the California Clearinghouse of EvidenceBased Practice for Child Welfare (www. cebc4cw.org). Not only do most graduate programs and nearly half of internships lack training in the most proven therapy, but the authors also found that many Children who have experienced trauma are more likely to experience depression. were training students to use unproven treatments, such as attachment-trauma pursue training in empirically supported trauma treatments, therapy and holding therapy, which has as they can also address a variety of internalizing symptoms, even been rated as potentially harmful. behavior problems and parental stress, she says. Failure to train in evidence-based trauma services is a “If you want to be prepared to serve children who have been disservice to both traumatized children and the psychology traumatized, make sure to seek specialized training in these students who are learning to treat them, says study co-author Jane treatments,” Silovsky says. Silovsky, PhD, of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences —m. RowH Center. Any psychologist who plans to work with children should gradPSYCH • March 2012 • 7 Comstock http://www.cebc4cw.org http://www.cebc4cw.org

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GradPSYCH - March 2012
Contents
Psychology practicums reflect the field’s growth
How evidencebased is your trauma treatment?
Media Picks
Chair’s Corner
Odd Jobs
Research Roundup
Chart your own adventure
Matters to a Degree
Killer apps
The oil spill’s reverberations
A student of synchrony
Literature reviews made easy
Absentee advisers
What’s behind the internship match crisis?
Potential solutions
Steps to the match
Bulletin Board
Jobs, internships, postdocs and other opportunities
The Back Page

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