Cover: Responding to the Needs of the Community

Responding to the Needs of the Community

A Stepped-Care Approach to Implementing Trauma-Focused Interventions in Schools

Published in: Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Youth, v. 5, no. 4, Fall 2005, p. 85-88, 100-103

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2005

by Lisa H. Jaycox, Sheryl H. Kataoka, Bradley D. Stein, Marleen Wong, Audra K. Langley

This paper describes the efforts of the Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program over the past seven years to develop trauma-focused school services that can address concerns about posttraumatic stress symptoms affecting students ability to learn.

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