What is it about?
This paper presents data from almost 2000 training evaluations collected from 168 Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) trainings delivered between October 2016 and August 2019. CCCT participants reported high levels of satisfaction and statistically significant change between pre- and postscores for eight self-reported child trauma skills.
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Why is it important?
The impact of trauma on mental and physical health has long been recognized as a significant public health issue, yet most mental health training programs provide only limited trauma education. In response to widespread trauma exposure, many organizations seek to become more trauma informed, yet they often struggle to provide the additional trauma training mental health providers need. This article describes statistically significant positive learning outcomes of CCCT-based training with over 2,000 mental health service providers across the United States, thus demonstrating the CCCT's potential utility for building a trauma-capable national mental health workforce.
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Prior data on the effectiveness of the CCCT have been limited to small pilot studies with master’s in social work students. This is the first large scale study of the learning outcomes of CCCT participants, and the first study to demonstrate statistically significant positive learning outcomes.
Sonya Dublin
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This page is a summary of: Building a trauma-informed national mental health workforce: Learning outcomes from use of the core curriculum on childhood trauma in multidisciplinary practice settings., Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, December 2019, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/tra0000540.
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