Practitioner Review: Posttraumatic stress disorder and its treatment in children and adolescents
Smith, P. , Dalgleish, T. and Meiser‐Stedman, R. (2019). J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 60: 500-515. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12983
This review summarises the current evidence base regarding the treatment of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) in children and adolescents. Trauma-focussed cognitive behaviour therapy (TF-CBT) remains superior to eye movement desensitsation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and others.