End Abuse Long Beach
CHILD ABUSE & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION COUNCIL
P.O. BOX 1548, LONG BEACH, CA 90801-1548
Since 1975
www.EndAbuseLB.org

February Program Agenda

Cheryl Lanktree, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and has a private practice in Santa Monica. She is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lanktree was Director of Miller Children's Hospital Abuse and Violence Intervention Center (MCAVIC), in Long Beach from 1998 through 2009. She successfully obtained numerous federal and private grants to support the services of MCAVIC. She was Project Director and Principal Investigator for the SAMHSA-funded MCAVIC-USC Child and Adolescent Trauma Program, of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) from 2005-2009. Dr. Lanktree and Dr. John Briere, Co-Director of the project, wrote two guides for their treatment model, Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma (ITCT) and conducted an ITCT Learning Community for therapists throughout the U.S. They also co-authored the book, Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults (Sage, 2011). Her website is: www.cblanktree.com.

Dr. Lanktree graduated from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She interned in Clinical Psychology at Yale University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. From 1988 to 1996, she was the Clinical Director at Stuart House, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and held an academic appointment at the University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Lanktree has published numerous papers on the assessment and treatment of child trauma. She has presented extensively in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, and Scotland, as well as throughout the United States.

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Overview:
This presentation will describe an evidence-based model for the assessment and treatment of complex trauma in children and adolescents. Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma (ITCT) has been developed for children aged 8 to 12 years (ITCT-C) and for adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 (ITCT-A). Dr. Lanktree will provide an overview of specific interventions, guidelines, and tools from treatment guides and a new book co-authored by Dr. John Briere and Dr. Lanktree, Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults (Sage, 2011) - click here for more info on the book.
Evidence supporting the effectiveness of ITCT from a multiple-year treatment outcome study conducted in Long Beach and funded through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and private foundations will be published in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma (Lanktree et. al, in press). ITCT is a culturally sensitive therapy model that combines various intervention approaches to treat multiply traumatized children, youth, and their families. Treatment modalities include individual, group, family, and collateral/caretaker therapy. The model was developed in a culturally diverse, socioeconomically disadvantaged community and has been used widely throughout the U.S. in outpatient clinics, schools, home-based programs, residential centers, children's advocacy centers, domestic violence shelters, and juvenile justice centers. A nation-wide ITCT Learning Community funded by NCTSN from 2008 to 2009 contributed to further development of ITCT. Treatment components include increasing safety, relational processing and attachment-based interventions, distress reduction and affect regulation training, cognitive and emotional processing of trauma, system and advocacy issues, self/identity issues, and increasing mindfulness.

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