TRAUMA FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+ GRADED
What are the various components to TF-CBT and the acronym that contains
them?
PRACTICE
P: Psychoeducation and parenting skills - providing info about what we know about
trauma and what helps & and making sure parents can help the kid
R: Relaxation - teaching coping skills
A: affective modulation - good understanding of feelings
C: cognitive coping and processing
T: trauma narrative - exposure therapy. Tell the story
I: In vivo, mastery of trauma reminders - control your traumatic experience memory
C: Conjoint child-parenting sessions
E: enhancing future safety and development
How do the different components of TF-CBT work together?
PRACTICE components work together in 3 ways.
1) Psychoeducation - providing info about what we know about trauma and what helps
2) Stress management - like deep breathing, imagining a safe place
3) Affect expression & modulation
With 2 goals
1) Cognitive processing & coping (Cognitive triangle) - identify & correct unhelpful and
inaccurate cognitions about the trauma
2) Gradual exposure
Psychoeducation
general information about abuse and trauma, and the effects of traumatic events, and
why it occurs
- Sex education- if the child's first and only experience with sex is sexual abuse they
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+ GRADED
What are the various components to TF-CBT and the acronym that contains
them?
PRACTICE
P: Psychoeducation and parenting skills - providing info about what we know about
trauma and what helps & and making sure parents can help the kid
R: Relaxation - teaching coping skills
A: affective modulation - good understanding of feelings
C: cognitive coping and processing
T: trauma narrative - exposure therapy. Tell the story
I: In vivo, mastery of trauma reminders - control your traumatic experience memory
C: Conjoint child-parenting sessions
E: enhancing future safety and development
How do the different components of TF-CBT work together?
PRACTICE components work together in 3 ways.
1) Psychoeducation - providing info about what we know about trauma and what helps
2) Stress management - like deep breathing, imagining a safe place
3) Affect expression & modulation
With 2 goals
1) Cognitive processing & coping (Cognitive triangle) - identify & correct unhelpful and
inaccurate cognitions about the trauma
2) Gradual exposure
Psychoeducation
general information about abuse and trauma, and the effects of traumatic events, and
why it occurs
- Sex education- if the child's first and only experience with sex is sexual abuse they
