Program Goals

The program representative did not provide information about the program’s goals.

Logic Model

The program representative did not provide information about a Logic Model for SITCAP-ART.

Essential Components

The essential components of SITCAP-ART include:

• Education:
• Provides empowerment, sense of safety and reduces anxiety
• Identifies process and what to expect through use of structuring statements
• Provides a booklet, "A Trauma is Like No Other Experience" in the program component
• Debriefing Session: Each adolescent is scheduled for an individual, one-hour debriefing session prior to beginning the group process.
• Alleviates need for adolescents to reveal difficult details in the group setting
• Normalizes adolescent's experience
• Provides an opportunity through the use of specific questions to redirect the adolescent's understanding of the impact that this experience has had on their life and how this intervention process will help bring the adolescent relief from the trauma specific symptoms
• Focus on Themes, not Behavior:
• Attempts to treat the sensory experiences of trauma that fuel and drive the adolescent's behavior rather than treat the behavior itself
• Intervener as Witness vs. Clinician:
• Must be involved in the adolescent's telling of their experience by being curious about all that happened
• Must be very concrete and literal in response to all the elements of the experience, its details and the visual representations provided by the adolescent
• Must not analyze the adolescent
• Must see how the victim now views himself and the world around him following the trauma
• Drawing/Sensory Component:
• Experience of trauma is stored in implicit memory and is transcribed into iconic representations/visualizations
• Iconic symbolization is process of giving one's experience a visual identity; images are created to contain all the elements of that experience - what happened, our emotional reactions to it, the horror and terror of the experience
• Drawings provide a representation of those "iconic" symbols that implicitly define what that experience was like for the adolescent; how that adolescent now views themselves and those around them
• Drawing becomes a vehicle for communicating and externalizing what that experience was like
• Trauma-Specific Questions and Details:
• Trauma-specific questions designed to help in the telling of the story and the provision of those details that allow intervener witnesses to better understand what the experience has been like for the adolescent
• Details provide a sense of control as well as sense of relief
• Details also provide information that helps to make sense out of what happened and may still be happening with the adolescent
• Cognitive Reframing:
• Scripted in SITCAP-ART to insure that the victim is provided a "survivors" way of making sense of their trauma experiences
• Helps move participants from "victim thinking" to "survivor thinking" which leads to empowerment, choice, and active involvement in their own healing process and a renewed sense of safety and hope
• Parent Component:
• Learning about trauma helps them to more adequately respond to the adolescent
• Helps primary caregivers who themselves have been traumatized just by educating them about trauma
• Group Treatment: Can be delivered in a group of 6 participants

Program Delivery

Child/Adolescent Services

SITCAP-ART directly provides services to children/adolescents and addresses the following:

• All problems and symptoms that fall under the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic sub-categories of re-experiening, avoidance and arousal

Parent/Caregiver Services

SITCAP-ART directly provides services to parents/caregivers and addresses the following:

• Parent of an adolescent experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to exposure to violent or nonviolent trauma situations

Recommended Intensity:

One hour-long session per week

Recommended Duration:

Eight to Ten weeks in length

Delivery Settings

This program is typically conducted in a(n):

• Outpatient Clinic
• Community-based Agency / Organization / Provider
• Group or Residential Care
• School Setting (Including: Day Care, Day Treatment Programs, etc.)

Homework

This program does not include a homework component.

Resources Needed to Run Program

The typical resources for implementing the program are:

• One facilitator
• Program manual and workbook
• 8.5"x11" white paper
• Colored pencils
• Chairs and tables
• Music

Manuals and Training

Prerequisite/Minimum Provider Qualifications

Intervener: Minimum two (2) day TLC Institute training required, Minimum 1 year group experience with adjudicated adolescents, Preferred Master's Level Education

Supervisor: Supervision provided by Master's Level TLC Institute trained professional

Manual Information

There is a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Training Information

There is training available for this program.

Training Contacts:

• Dr. William Steele
  bsteele@tlcinst.org
  phone: (877) 306-5256
• Dr. Caelan Soma
  info@starr.org
  phone: (800) 837-5591

Training Type/Location:

On-site or via TLC Institute national training conferences

Number of days/hours:

3 to 5 days of training

Additional Resources:

There currently are additional qualified resources for training:

• Margaret Delillo-Storey – Multi-County Juvenile Attention Center
  North Canton, OH
• Jacqueline Jacobs – Collaborations for Resiliency in Children
  Forsyth and Pickens County, GA

Implementation Information

Pre-Implementation Materials

There are no pre-implementation materials to measure organizational or provider readiness for SITCAP-ART.

Formal Support for Implementation

The program representative did not provide information about formal support for implementation of SITCAP-ART.

Fidelity Measures

The program representative did not provide information about fidelity measures of SITCAP-ART.

Implementation Guides or Manuals

The program representative did not provide information about implementation guides or manuals for SITCAP-ART.

Research on How to Implement the Program

The program representative did not provide information about research conducted on how to implement SITCAP-ART.

Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research

Child Welfare Outcome: Child/Family Well-Being

Additional References