Milieu management of traumatized youngsters.
OBJECTIVE
Traumatized youngsters are disproportionately represented in out-of-home treatment facilities. Conceptual models that guide treatment of traumatized youngsters are not well integrated with models that guide milieu management.


OBJECTIVE
To describe a milieu management approach for treatment of traumatized youngsters.


METHODS
Clinical experience with hospital and residential treatment facilities and therapeutic foster homes, as well as literature support.


CONCLUSIONS
Familiar treatment strategies take on an additional meaning when they are implemented in the context of the children's histories of exposure to traumatic events.
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Nursing, Little Rock, USA.
D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008884:Milieu Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*