Robert Abramovitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5507895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Abramovitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Abramovitz |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMOVITZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Training experienced mental health practitioners to deliver foundational trauma education: The core curriculum on childhood trauma
CCCT facilitator training effectively imparts skills needed to increase workforce trauma capacity; however, modifications to the facilitator development model are needed to maximize impact of scale-up efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
How do we get to trauma-informed practice? Retention and application of learning by practitioners trained using the core curriculum on childhood trauma
Objective: Most mental health practitioners receive minimal trauma training in their degree curriculum and rely on supplemental training to build additional skills. Since 2016, the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) has been used for brief in-service training of more than 2,000 mental health practitioners. Prior evaluation showed statistically significant learning outcomes posttraining, yet little was known about retention of learning or …
Building a trauma-informed national mental health workforce: Learning outcomes from use of the core curriculum on childhood trauma in multidisciplinary practice settings
The consistency of positive outcomes across a wide variety of training formats and audiences demonstrates that the CCCT can be implemented successfully in diverse practice settings and thus can be a useful tool for building a trauma-capable, multidisciplinary national mental health workforce. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Building a Trauma-Informed Workforce Capacity and Legacy
Social workers encounter trauma in a majority of the populations they serve. It is therefore essential to train social work students to understand the impact of trauma, to assess trauma history and symptoms, and to effectively intervene with children and families. This article presents 3 qualitative research narratives that provide an in-depth analysis of factors contributing to successful implementation of an innovative trauma-informed education…
The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma: A tool for training a trauma-informed workforce
Recognition of the nationwide high prevalence of psychological trauma in children and adolescents, combined with increasing awareness of the far-reaching adverse consequences of childhood trauma, have led to calls to develop a trauma-informed mental health workforce. We describe the initial pilot test of the Core Concepts portion of the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma, as conducted in a large graduate school of social work. The Core Curriculu…
Adolescent exposure to recurrent terrorism in Israel: Posttraumatic distress and functional impairment
This study examines the impact of exposure to ongoing terrorism on 695 Israeli high school students. Exposure was measured using a questionnaire developed for the security situation in Israel. Posttraumatic symptoms were measured using the UCLA PTSD Index for DSM-IV--Adolescent Version (N. Rodriguez, A. Steinberg, & R. S. Pynoos, 1999), functional impairment and somatic complaints were assessed using items derived from the Diagnostic Interview Sc…
Bereavement Groups for Inner-City Children
Guided by theory, empirical research, and clinical experience, this demonstration tested a 12-session group intervention for 38 inner-city children who had lost a caregiver. The design of the group intervention was guided by the psychodynamic tradition of the sponsoring agency, themes from the bereavement literature, and findings from intervention research on bereaved children and adults. Attendance for the group intervention was high among those…
The Clientele of a Child and Family Mental Health Agency: Empirically Derived Household Clusters and Practice Implications
Social workers and other mental health professionals have developed and applied a number of typologies of family types in clinical practice, as well as for program planning. Most such taxonomies have emerged from theory and practice, but few are based on more than two or three dimensions or have been rigorously tested empirically. In this study of a representative sample of 625 households from which clients of a child and family mental health and…
Building a Trauma-Informed Workforce Capacity and Legacy
Social workers encounter trauma in a majority of the populations they serve. It is therefore essential to train social work students to understand the impact of trauma, to assess trauma history and symptoms, and to effectively intervene with children and families. This article presents 3 qualitative research narratives that provide an in-depth analysis of factors contributing to successful implementation of an innovative trauma-informed education…
Bereavement Groups for Inner-City Children
Guided by theory, empirical research, and clinical experience, this demonstration tested a 12-session group intervention for 38 inner-city children who had lost a caregiver. The design of the group intervention was guided by the psychodynamic tradition of the sponsoring agency, themes from the bereavement literature, and findings from intervention research on bereaved children and adults. Attendance for the group intervention was high among those…
Bereavement Groups for Inner-City Children
Guided by theory, empirical research, and clinical experience, this demonstration tested a 12-session group intervention for 38 inner-city children who had lost a caregiver. The design of the group intervention was guided by the psychodynamic tradition of the sponsoring agency, themes from the bereavement literature, and findings from intervention research on bereaved children and adults. Attendance for the group intervention was high among those…
The Clientele of a Child and Family Mental Health Agency: Empirically Derived Household Clusters and Practice Implications
Social workers and other mental health professionals have developed and applied a number of typologies of family types in clinical practice, as well as for program planning. Most such taxonomies have emerged from theory and practice, but few are based on more than two or three dimensions or have been rigorously tested empirically. In this study of a representative sample of 625 households from which clients of a child and family mental health and…
Adolescent exposure to recurrent terrorism in Israel: Posttraumatic distress and functional impairment
This study examines the impact of exposure to ongoing terrorism on 695 Israeli high school students. Exposure was measured using a questionnaire developed for the security situation in Israel. Posttraumatic symptoms were measured using the UCLA PTSD Index for DSM-IV--Adolescent Version (N. Rodriguez, A. Steinberg, & R. S. Pynoos, 1999), functional impairment and somatic complaints were assessed using items derived from the Diagnostic Interview Sc…
The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma: A tool for training a trauma-informed workforce
Recognition of the nationwide high prevalence of psychological trauma in children and adolescents, combined with increasing awareness of the far-reaching adverse consequences of childhood trauma, have led to calls to develop a trauma-informed mental health workforce. We describe the initial pilot test of the Core Concepts portion of the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma, as conducted in a large graduate school of social work. The Core Curriculu…
Building a Trauma-Informed Workforce Capacity and Legacy
Social workers encounter trauma in a majority of the populations they serve. It is therefore essential to train social work students to understand the impact of trauma, to assess trauma history and symptoms, and to effectively intervene with children and families. This article presents 3 qualitative research narratives that provide an in-depth analysis of factors contributing to successful implementation of an innovative trauma-informed education…
Building a trauma-informed national mental health workforce: Learning outcomes from use of the core curriculum on childhood trauma in multidisciplinary practice settings
The consistency of positive outcomes across a wide variety of training formats and audiences demonstrates that the CCCT can be implemented successfully in diverse practice settings and thus can be a useful tool for building a trauma-capable, multidisciplinary national mental health workforce. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
How do we get to trauma-informed practice? Retention and application of learning by practitioners trained using the core curriculum on childhood trauma
Objective: Most mental health practitioners receive minimal trauma training in their degree curriculum and rely on supplemental training to build additional skills. Since 2016, the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) has been used for brief in-service training of more than 2,000 mental health practitioners. Prior evaluation showed statistically significant learning outcomes posttraining, yet little was known about retention of learning or …
Training experienced mental health practitioners to deliver foundational trauma education: The core curriculum on childhood trauma
CCCT facilitator training effectively imparts skills needed to increase workforce trauma capacity; however, modifications to the facilitator development model are needed to maximize impact of scale-up efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Curriculum (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works)