About this trial

This pilot study, conducted in partnership with juvenile detention centers, evaluates an adapted CBITS-RTM intervention delivered in a detention school setting.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

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..

Disqualifiers

Observable cognitive or developmental delays or active psychosis that would interfere with completing consent, assessment or intervention.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) with a Racial Trauma Module (RTM)

Treatment groups

28 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Locations

1
UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital94131, San FranciscoCalifornia, United States

Sponsors and collaborators

University of California, San Francisco

Lead sponsor