George Simpson Ake III

Journal Article Adm Policy Ment Health · September 2020 A systematic review was conducted to identify determinants (barriers and facilitators) of implementing evidence-based psychosocial interventions for children and youth who experience emotional or behavioral difficulties due to trauma exposure. Determinants ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disseminating parent-child interaction therapy through the learning collaborative model on the adoption and implementation of an evidence-based treatment

Journal Article Children and Youth Services Review · June 1, 2019 Evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for childhood disruptive behavior disorders, such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), have limited availability in community settings. Recent research highlights the importance of implementation support models to en ... Full text Cite

Pilot to policy: statewide dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatment for traumatized youth.

Journal Article BMC Health Serv Res · July 28, 2018 BACKGROUND: A model for statewide dissemination of evidence-based treatment (EBT) for traumatized youth was piloted and taken to scale across North Carolina (NC). This article describes the implementation platform developed, piloted, and evaluated by the N ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trauma-Informed Care: Definitions and Statewide Initiatives

Chapter · 2018 The Fourth Edition of The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment provides readers with the most up-to-date theory, research, and best practices in the field of child abuse and neglect. ... Link to item Cite

Reconsidering Our Domestic Violence System.

Journal Article N C Med J · 2018 Children's exposure to domestic violence is well established as an adverse childhood experience (ACE). Much is known about the impact of this exposure, but efforts to ameliorate its effects are too often unsuccessful. Reconsidering our response requires a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trauma Screening in Child Welfare: Lessons Learned from Five States

Journal Article Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma · December 1, 2017 Children in the child welfare system experience high rates of exposure to potentially traumatic events, which are associated with significant impairments in safety, permanency, and well-being. However, child welfare systems have not routinely screened chil ... Full text Cite

Working with resource parents for trauma-informed foster care

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Child welfare and mental health trainers are often at a loss for trauma-informed resources to enhance the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of resource parents. This chapter is designed to provide an understanding of the National Child Traumatic Stress Netw ... Full text Cite

Trauma-Informed Care for Children in the Child Welfare System: An Initial Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Parenting Workshop.

Journal Article Child Maltreat · May 2016 An essential but often overlooked component to promoting trauma-informed care within the child welfare system is educating and empowering foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers (resource parents) with a trauma-informed perspective to use in their parenti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Domestic Violence and Families: Trauma-Focused Treatment Options.

Journal Article N C Med J · 2016 Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of treatment completion in a sample of youth who have experienced physical or sexual trauma.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · January 2014 Despite significant advances in knowledge and availability of evidence-based models for child traumatic stress, many children simply do not complete treatment. There remain notable gaps in the services research literature about treatment completion among y ... Full text Link to item Cite

Complex trauma and mental health in children and adolescents placed in foster care: findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

Journal Article Child Welfare · 2011 Many children in the child welfare system (CWS) have histories of recurrent interpersonal trauma perpetrated by caregivers early in life often referred to as complex trauma. Children in the CWS also experience a diverse range of reactions across multiple a ... Link to item Cite

Book Review: Understanding Child Maltreatment

Journal Article Child Maltreatment · November 2006 Full text Cite

The influence of religious orientation and coping on the psychological distress of christian domestic violence victims

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Abuse · March 8, 2004 This study focused on the relationships between religious coping methods, religious orientation, patriarchal religious beliefs, and psychological distress among 157 Christian women domestic violence victims who received counseling or shelter services in th ... Full text Cite