This was a virtual program that included high school students from the Miami-Dade County public school district who had suffered the loss of at least one parent or primary caregiver. The intervention is made up of a team of child psychologists, licensed professional counselors, and licensed social workers that have undergone trauma-informed training before the program launch. The intervention is composed of virtual individual counseling sessions, virtual group therapy sessions, and social media peer support communities. The intervention program will utilize four different levels of the McLeroy Social Ecological model (McLeroy et al., 1988). These are intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and community levels (McLeroy et al., 1988). The program utilizes all six trauma-informed principles; safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment/voice/choice, cultural/historical/gender issues (SAMHSA, 2014). The program addresses the secondary and tertiary levels of intervention (Kisling, 2023). High school counselors will administer assessments based of the Development and Well-being Assessment (Kuhn et al., 2017) and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire Fumero et al., 2021) to the participant and their primary caregiver at the beginning of the program and every six months to evaluate treatment progression and mental health symptom severity. There will, also, be a participant satisfaction survey given every six months to assess quality of care and participation in the program.
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Kisling, L. A. (2023, August 1). Prevention strategies. StatPearls [Internet]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537222/
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Fumero, A., Marrero, R. J., Pérez-Albéniz, A., & Fonseca-Pedrero, E. (2021). Adolescents’ bipolar experiences and suicide risk: Well-being and mental health difficulties as mediators. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), 3024. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063024
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