Selected Topics: Trauma

Louis Najarian , M.D.  

PTY-CA - 2nd Year
Winter 2008-09

The primary focus during the 10 weeks of selected topics is a review of the diagnosis and treatment of childhood trauma. There is an introduction to the types of trauma with the variations of emotional sequellae. A detailed session by session treatment manual for Cognitive Behavior Therapy of Traumatic Bereavement in Children is presented with clinical illustrations. Current research and treatment interventions for Complex Trauma and Developmental Trauma Disorders are reviewed.

Other topics include psychosomatic conditions in children with a focus on gastrointestinal disorders and the importance of fairy tales in childhood development. There is opportunity for candidates to identify special topics of interest for discussion.

1. Disaster Intervention: Long term psychosocial benefits in Armenia.

Louis M. Najarian, MD in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2004; 19(1)79-85

2. Outcome of psychotherapy among early adolescents after trauma.

Armen K. Goenjian, MD et al in American Journal of Psychiatry
1997;154:536-542

3. A prospective study of posttraumatic stress and depressive 

reactions among treated and untreated adolescents 5 years after a catastrophic
disaster. Armen K. Goenjian, MD et al in American Journal of Psychiatry
2005;162:2302-2308

4. A pilot study of modified cognitive-behavioral therapy for childhood traumatic

Grief (CBT-CTG). Judith A. Cohen, MD, Anthony P. Mannarino, PhD.
Virginia R. Staron, MA. in  J. American Academy Child Adolescent Psychiatry
2006; 45(12):1465-1473

5. Treatment of traumatized children: A review and synthesis. Cohen, JA,

      Berliner, L, Mannarino, AP in Journal of Trauma, Violence and Abuse
      2000:1(1):29-46

6. A treatment outcome study for sexually abused preschool children: initial findings

Cohen, JA, Mannarino, AP in J American Academy Child Adolescent Psychiatry
1996; 35(1)42-50

7. Trauma/grief-focused group psychotherapy: school based post-war intervention 

      with traumatized Bosnian adolescents. Layne, CM, Pynoos, RS, Saltzman, WA,  
      Arslanagic, B, Black,M in Group Dynamics: Theory Research Practice
       2001; 5(4)

8. A public mental health approach to post disaster treatment of children and 

adolescents. Pynoos RS, Goenjian AK, Steinberg AM in Child and Adolescent Clinics of North America 1998;7:195-210

9. “Wild Child”: How three principles of healing organized 12 years of  

psychotherapy. Lenore C Terr. J American Academy Child Adolescent
Psychiatry 2003: 42:12 1401-1409.

10. Childhood traumas – an outline and overview. Lenore Terr in American Journal of Psychiatry 1991;148:10-20

11.  Children of Chowchilla: a study of psychic trauma. Lenore Terr in Psychoanalytic Study of Child 34:552-623, 1979

12. Discussion of Buffalo Creek Disaster: The Course of Psychic Trauma.

Leo Rangell. Am J Psychiatry 1976:133:3, 315-316.

13. Developmental Trauma Disorder, Bessel A. Van der Kolk

             Psychiatric Annals 2005:35(5) 401-408

14. Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents, Alexandra Cook et al

              Psychiatric Annals 2005:35(5) 393-398

BOOKS

Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents Judith A Cohen, Anthony P Mannarino and Elizabeth Deblinger  New York: The Guilford Press 2006

Platy Therapy with Children in Crises Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford Press New York 1999

Traumatic Stress Edited by Bessel van der Kolk, Alexander Mc Farlane and Lars Weisaeth Guiford Press New York 1996

Trauma and Self Edited by Charles Strozier and Michael Flynn Rowman, Littlefield Publishers Inc London 1996

Too Scared To Cry Lenore Terr, Harper Row Publishers New York 1990

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children  Edited by Spencer Eth and Robert S Pynoos American Psychiatric Press Inc. Washington DC 1985