title: Strengthening family coping resources: the feasibility of a multifamily group intervention for families exposed to trauma.
abstract: Families exposed to urban poverty face a disproportionate risk of exposure to repeated trauma. Repeated exposures can lead to severe and chronic reactions in multiple family members with effects that ripple throughout the family system. Interventions for distressed families residing in traumatic contexts, such as low-income, urban settings are desperately needed. This report presents preliminary data in support of Strengthening Family Coping Resources, a trauma-focused, multifamily, skill-building intervention. Strengthening Family Coping Resources is designed for families living in traumatic contexts with the goal of reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders in children and caregivers. Results from open trials suggest Strengthening Family Coping Resources is a feasible intervention with positive effects on children's symptoms of trauma-related distress.
authors.affiliation: Division of Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. lkiser@psych.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Laurel J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Kiser
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Donohue
authors.forename: Stacy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hodgkinson
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Medoff
authors.forename: Maureen M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Black
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*