Strengthening foster children's skills: a descriptive study on a trauma-informed group intervention.

ABSTRACT: Background: Foster children have an increased risk of psychological distress because they often experienced multiple traumatizing events. Untreated trauma and behavioural problems are important risk factors for breakdown of foster placements. Unfortunately, the application of first-choice trauma treatment is often complicated due to avoidance, dysregulation and motivational problems.Objective: The present study investigates whether the group intervention Tame your Dragon improves behavioural functioning and emotion regulation skills in children with trauma-related problems, who are unable or unwilling to start trauma treatment. It also examines whether this results in facilitating subsequent evidence-based trauma treatment.Method: In total, 7 intervention groups with 2

SUBMITTER: Brinkerink SEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12857721 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature