Treatment of Inner City Youth for PTSD
Anthony Morris
Eckerd College
Abstract
In America’s inner cities there are large numbers of households that are headed by a single caregiver; this aspect of life in the inner cities has become the norm in most instances. This dynamic of singularity in regards to inner city households can be attributed to teen pregnancies, drug addiction, gang activity, incarceration, inner city violence, and /or apathy. Along with growing up in single caregiver situations the youth of the inner cities are exposed to a culture of perceived failure, a culture of violence in the forms of mental, physical, and sexual in nature. The lives of inner city youth has been described as having the effects of the psyche of some of the most battle hardened combat vets. Having grown up, lived, worked, and being witness to some aspects of inner city living hat has shocked my sensibilities I have been interested in the treatment of inner city youth and the effects of urban living in a psychological manner.
Treatment of Inner City Youth for PTSD
The article titled, “Posttraumatic child therapy (P-TCT): assessment and treatment factors in clinical work with inner- city children exposed to catastrophic community violence”, is written by Erwin Randolph Parson. This article was published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence 12.2, in April 1997.
Erwin Randolph Parson was trying to find the adverse physical, mental and psychological effects that inner city violence has on the children of the community. Mister Parson was researching posttraumatic symptoms and the children’s response to the violence in their community. Mister Parson was implementing a prescribed assessment process and a model of intervention called,”posttraumatic child therapy (P-TCT) “. The theory that Erwin Parson was exploring was that posttraumatic child therapy is a system of care and therapy that includes cognitive, behaviorial,...