This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Emergency Medicine  • Pediatrics, Other  • Alert me on articles by topic

by Glenn N. Saxe, MD, B. Heidi Ellis, PhD, and Julie B. Kaplow, PhD, 338 pp, $40, ISBN 1-59385-315-7, The Guilford Press, New York, New York, 2007.

Douglas Zatzick, MD, Reviewer

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(9):914-915.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Traumatic life events, including physical assaults, motor vehicle crashes, childhood abuse, and exposure to natural disasters, appear to be endemic among youth and adults in the United States.¹ As the authors of the excellent volume Collaborative Treatment of Traumatized Children and Teens: The Trauma Systems Therapy Approach highlight, for a subpopulation of youth and families, trauma exposure is a chronic recurrent problem. For these children and teens, poverty, disrupted community life, and fragmented health service delivery systems may also complicate posttraumatic mental and physical health care.

The authors articulately put forth trauma systems therapy as a comprehensive treatment strategy for children, teens, and families with chronic recurrent traumatic experiences. The collaborative treatment approach is designed to address what the authors believe to be the 2 core features of "trauma systems": an individual child who is not able to regulate emotional states and a family environment and/or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION