James Donaldson on Mental Health - What's the Best Treatment for PTSD in Children?
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James Donaldson on Mental Health - What's the Best Treatment for PTSD in Children?

3 min readBy Jordan Ellis

Frequently Asked Questions What’s the best PTSD treatment for childhood trauma?

Frequently Asked Questions What’s the best PTSD treatment for childhood trauma?

What are the components of child PTSD treatment?

The components of TF-CBT, a PTSD treatment for children, include learning about common trauma responses, developing skills to deal with extreme anxiety, and creating a trauma narrative, in which a child learns to safely revisit the traumatic event, dulling its emotional impact over time.

Jordan Ellis

Jordan Ellis

Writer & founder · Standing Above the Crowd

Jordan writes from lived experience about mental health, resilience, and the slow, unglamorous work of healing.

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