Preventing Substance Use Among Incarcerated Youth Through Addressing Posttraumatic Stress
University of California, San Francisco
Summary
This pilot study, conducted in partnership with juvenile detention centers, evaluates an adapted CBITS-RTM intervention delivered in a detention school setting.
Description
The study examines the intervention's feasibility and acceptability, as well as its effectiveness in reducing incarcerated youth's posttraumatic stress symptoms, improving academic functioning, and decreasing intentions to use substances post-release.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 13+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Youth must 1) be currently incarcerated in a partnering juvenile detention center, 2) be between 13-18 years of age, and 3) have a minimum of 3 months remaining on their sentence (i.e., sufficient time required to complete CBITS-RTM). Youth will complete a screening with a study team member involving the 2-item Abbreviated PTSD Checklist-Civilian version, with scores ≥4 considered a positive screen * Clinicians are eligible if they are behavioral health staff working with youth at the detention school.. Exclusion Criteria: * Observable cognitive or developmental delays…
Interventions
- BehavioralAdapted Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) with a Racial Trauma Module (RTM)
The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program is a school-based, group and individual intervention designed to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and behavioral problems, and to improve functioning, grades and attendance, and coping skills. The CBITS intervention was adapted to juvenile justice settings with an added Racial Trauma Module (RTM), which provides youth with an overview of the effects of racism on levels of traumatic stress.
Location
- UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco, California