It has been well documented that participation in the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) helps reduce children’s trauma symptomatology as rated by both children themselves as well as their caregivers. Additionally, the developers of the CFTSI model recently reported that participation in therapy reduces the discordance between child and caregiver ratings of trauma symptoms (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108000). That is, at the beginning of therapy, the child and the caregiver often didn’t show a great deal of agreement about how symptomatic the child was, but after completing therapy, the ratings of the child and the caregiver were much more congruent. This is a testament to how participation in CFTSI improves family communication. After reading this manuscript, we were interested to see if the pattern held true for the families we have been treating here in St. Louis. Sure enough, we have found the same results. Please see the graph and tables below for details.
