Description: Fact sheet. Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy (TARGET) is a treatment for traumatic stress related to child physical or sexual abuse, exposure to domestic or community violence, and traumatic loss.

TARGET groups involve 3-12 sessions (adapted to the setting) teaching skills for
bodily self-regulation, affect regulation, autobiographical and working memory (information processing), interpersonal problem solving, and stress management with didactic and nonverbal experiential exercises. The skill set is summarized for easy recall and use by an acronym, FREEDOM.

TARGET in individual therapy or case management (including parents in some separate and some conjoint sessions) teaches the same skill set in a 10-12 session protocol.

Culture-specific information on the intervention is available at http://www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/promising_practices/targeta_cultural.pdf

Developer site: University of Connecticut School of Medicine