Besides a standard intake to identify the eligibility of patients, the researchers will administer three standardized scales and one structured interview before and after the intervention.
Trauma Focus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy It is a short-term therapy model, which based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles. Usually, it takes twelve – eighteen sessions and is consist of eight modules including psycho-education, stress management, affect expression and modulation, cognitive coping, creating the trauma narrative, cognitive processing, behavior management training, parent-child sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Main components of the children/adolescent protocol are psycho-education, …show more content…
ERQ was developed by Rydell. Thorell and Bohlin (2007) in order to measure children’s ability to manage intense emotions in the face of emotionally challenging situations. The researchers provide twenty-two emotionally challenging vignettes occurring in the context of family, school, and peer relationships. Children also are presented alternatives for regulating anger, sadness or fear. Each emotion is operationalized with illustrative sentences, for example, “ If I am angry and my teacher tells me to calm down, I can control myself”. Children respond on each vignette with 4-point Likert scale (1: does not apply me at all – 4: applies very well to me). Results indicate the intensity and content of emotional regulation. Sufficient construct and convergent validity are reported (Punamaki, …show more content…
Parenting skills and their ability to adjust new situations will be evaluated with PAFAS, which is comprised of parenting and family adjustment scales. PAFAS is a thirty items, self-report scale designed to measure parenting practice, the quality of parent-child relationships (Parenting Scale), and parental emotional adjustment and partner/family support. Participants respond on 4-point Likert (0: Not true of me at all to 3: true of me very much, or most of the time). Psychometric evaluation of PAFAS indicated satisfactory internal consistency, convergent validity, and predictive strength in terms of the relationship between child adjustment and parental self-efficacy (Sanders et al.