A pilot study of a low-threshold, low-intensity cognitive behavioral intervention for traumatized adolescents
Sammanfattning
This pilot study investigated whether traumatized adolescents (N = 11) who received brief cognitive behavioral intervention, including self-help material, reported symptom relief. It also explored how the self-help material was used. A mixed methods, exploratory, one-group intervention design was used. The results indicated that the self-help material served as a flexible and useful therapeutic tool, one used to enhance coping in areas related to trauma, interpersonal relations, and school. Adolescents’ levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms decreased, and the results were sustained at the one-year follow-up period. The promising results provide a basis for studies with better methodological rigor to investigate effects of interventions that include the use of self-help material in low-threshold services for adolescents.