Linda A. Lewandowski, PhD, RN Many youth who engage in violence have themselves been victims of violence in the past. Preventing PTSD in Injured Children and Their Families serves to help develop an intervention that would reduce the incidences of violence committed by children injured through community violence (excluding child abuse).
Our specific aim is to further develop the Critical Incident Stress Model and to adapt it to families experiencing a violent injury of a child and to understand how the effects of this type of violence differ from those of other types of injuries. We will conduct a pilot investigation, which will allow us to examine theoretical, logistical, and methodological issues prior to conducting a full-scale clinical trial in the next phase of this research program in order to improve psychosocial outcomes in these high-risk groups. |
