Trauma-Focused Behavioral Health for Children in Rural & Medically Underserved Areas

Project Overview

The Telehealth Outreach Program for Traumatic Stress (TOP-TS) is a novel program developed in 2015 to provide evidence-based trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) via telehealth for children and adolescents. The COE TOP-TS team will tailor and scale the existing curriculum to train and support mental health providers and agencies to effectively implement TF-CBT via telehealth for youth/families in rural and medically underserved areas in mainland US and Puerto Rico. Moreover, the TOP-TS team will leverage the COE’s implementation science expertise to inform and evaluate their dissemination efforts. Additionally, the TOP-TS team will implement a Randomized Controlled Trial comparing in-office delivery of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to telehealth delivered TF-CBT for children and adolescents. Currently no published studies exist in the literature for a randomized controlled trial of any trauma focused treatment delivered via telehealth with children and adolescents. Thus, this study has the potential to significantly impact the field.

Please visit the Telehealth Outreach Program for Traumatic Stress website here: https://telehealthfortrauma.com/.