Treatment of multiple traumatized adolescents by enhancing regulation skills and reducing trauma related symptoms: rationale, study design, and methods of randomized controlled trial (the Mars-study)

Abstract Background There is ongoing debate regarding the treatment of severe and multiple traumatized children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many clinicians favor a phase-based treatment approach (i.e., a stabilization phase prior to trauma-focused therapy) over immedi...

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Main Authors: Rik Knipschild, Helen Klip, Doenja van Leeuwaarden, Mariken J. R. van Onna, Ramon J. L. Lindauer, Wouter G. Staal, Iva A. E. Bicanic, Ad de Jongh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-09-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05073-4