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. 2022 Jun 20;13:21501319221106625. doi: 10.1177/21501319221106625

Table 3.

Overview of the Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) Sessions.

Audience—session no. Aim of the session Description of the session
Child—First Introduction Getting to know each other and identification of the major issues
Child—Second Intrusion Discussion about war events, news, and normalization of reactions to traumatic events. Introduction of “Safe place” visualization.
Child—Third Intrusion Thought discussion, use of imagery techniques, dual attention tasks, dreamwork, and distraction
Child—Fourth Arousal The practice of relaxation, breath control, and positive self-coping exercises. Understanding “fear thermometer” activity scheduling, and sleep hygiene.
Child—Fifth Exposure War event flashbacks are discussed, the concept of grading and personalized fear hierarchy is revisited, and real-life graded exposure preparation is done
Child—Sixth Exposure Learning about how to expose themselves to traumatic events via drawing, talking, and writing and implementation of techniques learned in the fourth session (arousal), the importance of doing enjoyable things
Child—Seventh Follow-up Looking into the future without discussing further the content of the intervention
Caregiver—first Introduction Occurs before the start of the children’s session and involves psychoeducation about traumas and how they impact children and adults
Caregiver—second Briefing Occurs between children’s sessions second and fourth. Caregivers are acquainted with the information that children are receiving and how caregivers can help youth to cope with past and ongoing traumas.