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Targeting Trauma: Improving School Outcomes For Students In Out-Of-Home Care, Anna Benton
Targeting Trauma: Improving School Outcomes For Students In Out-Of-Home Care, Anna Benton
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The central purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS; Jaycox, 2002) program as implemented with students residing in out-of-home care (OHC) placements in an urban public high school in the Midwest United States. Utilizing single-case design methodology, CBITS was implemented. Six students (three in the treatment group and three in the waitlist control group) participated in this study, alongside their classroom teachers and parents/guardians. Three key school outcomes were assessed: traumatic stress symptomology, problematic classroom behaviors, and academic disengagement.
Screening results suggested that rates of exposure to trauma …