Tuesday, May 21, 2024
5/21/2024
Bringing Evidence Based Assessments of Trauma- and Abuse-Related Symptoms to Category III Sites, CACs, and Universities will provide synchronous and asynchronous web-based training using a learning collaborative model. In Year 1, 160 trainees, 7 trainers, and 15 doctoral students will train. In 5 years, 1095 clinicians will train in Evidence-Based Assessment (EBA); 45 will become trained trainers, and 75-100 graduate students will train in both EBAs and TFCBT. The Project will focus on Child Abuse/Child Protective Services and Child Welfare Settings (i.e., child advocacy centers and Category III sites serving abused/traumatized children). The Project will serve a diverse demographic of abused and traumatized children served through the 795 child advocacy centers throughout the U.S. (subject to accreditation by the National Children’s Alliance), as well as Category III sites funded in this next SAMHSA funding cycle. The CAC and Category III training will focus on developing competencies in evidence based assessments using reliable, valid, and normed measures whenever possible. This emphasis corresponds with premise that good treatment, even evidence-based treatment requires a good assessment. In fact, the field of evidence based treatment has advanced ahead of evidence based assessment. Since the symptom presentations of abused children often encompass more than trauma symptoms AND because there are an increasing number of evidence based treatments, there is a need to match clinical presentations and treatment priorities along with the best suited evidence based treatment. A synchronous (live) and asynchronous (passive) web-based approach combining videoconferencing and a Moodle-based learning platform will allow learners from across the U.S. to participate in 3 three-hour training sessions followed by 10 consultation/supervision sessions. Trainees will learn about tests and measurement; ethics; different diagnosis; administration, scoring, and interpreting of test measures (the TSCC, TSCYC, and CSBI), and screening measures for polyvictimization; integration of findings, and matching symptom presentation and priorities with evidence-based treatments. Three protocols must be completed by each trainee with a presentation to the learning cohort of 10 trainees. There also is an online exam which must be passed at a threshold of 80% by the 3rd attempt. Fidelity metrics and assessment practices will be evaluated and reported along with other metrics required by SAMHSA. There also is a train the trainer component, the involvement of senior leaders, and the training of doctoral students in psychology from 5 universities. The doctoral students will participate in a year-long collaborative learning EBAs and TFCBT from a master trainer in TFCBT. The goals include: Goal 1: Identifying training partners with the NCA and NCTSN; Goal 2: The Project will provide three concurrent, 13-week training cohorts in evidence-based assessment and repeat quarterly; Goal 3: training 3-4 graduate students in clinical psychology programs in EBA and TFCBT; Goal 4-6: Collaborate with NCTSN and NCA; Goal 7: Train trainers.
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