There are other interventions that require significantly more training and expertise.
One that's been widely used in the trauma field and works also
in disaster children exposed to disaster especially if they're having persisting.
Trauma symptoms is called trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, or TFCBT.
And there's a very good website, again,
we'll point you to online, where you can learn about this methodology.
And you can even.
Try out some of the early stages of training on line.
But this requires more extensive training than psychological first aid.
Another example of an intervention that requires specialized training is KidNET.
NET stands for Narrative exposure therapy.
This type of therapy which is.
Gradual exposure to a narrative or
telling your story about what has happened has been found to be helpful not only for
trauma survivors in a disaster but
also for trauma survivors in war and other situations.
For example, child soldiers, which we'll be.
Talking about in the next module of this class.
In KidNET often the therapist works with a,
a traumatized young person or adult in different situations,
and they use symbolic timelines where they use a rope to illustrate your life.
And then you have a set of flowers and stones, small stones and large stones and
you mark out your life on this rope starting at the beginning of your life, or
anywhere else and then without really saying what the events are,
you put flowers for good events and stones for
difficult or traumatic events along your timeline.
And you kind of lay out your life.
And then, gradually, over time, could range from four to ten sessions usually,
you talk about the various flowers and stones in your life.
With a lot of emotional support from the therapist.
And this combines the, a, an autobiographical narrative.
With the support of a therapeutic relationship.
And it helps the person deal with the anxiety and stressful arousal
that often traumatic memories have and there's a kind of desensitization process.
This has been, demonstrated to work in a randomized control trial,
among a group of children who were traumatized in Sri Lanka,
with a combination of traumatic experiences in the wake of that tsunami.
We've al, already talked about this investigator, Catani.
In terms of looking at evidence on a disaster effects on children.
And this was a very interesting study that was done showing that
this method was effective with these children.