What We Do

Using state-of-the-art screening tools, we ensure that youth seen at the Lucine Center receive the most appropriate and effective treatments.

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All of our services begin with a standardized assessment that allows us to better understand our client’s experiences, needs, and strengths.

Our goal is to not only reduce current distress, but also ensure that our clients go on to lead healthy, happy productive lives long after treatment is over.

Our treatments are grounded in research and science.

Our primary treatments have been developed, implemented, and rigorously evaluated by Dr. Kaplow and her colleagues, the results of which have been published in top tier, peer-reviewed journals.

Our clinicians are passionate, talented, and dedicated.

All of our clinicians have joined The Lucine Center with the same mission in mind - to help foster resilience and healing in youth exposed to trauma and loss. They have all dedicated their careers to treating this very special but often overlooked population.

Our services depend upon measurement-based care.

We use assessment tools at various intervals throughout treatment in order to ensure that our interventions are working. In other words, we always want to make sure that our clients are getting better using objective tools that can inform us of our progress.

Symptoms We Treat
Posttraumatic Stress
Posttraumatic Stress
Unhelpful grief reactions
Unhelpful grief reactions
Depression
Depression
Distress
Distress

Our Treatments

Trauma and Grief Component Therapy

TGCT is an evidence-based treatment for youth who have experienced one or more traumatic events and/or the death of a loved one. TGCT is designed to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress, maladaptive grief reactions, depression, and/or functional impairment.
(TGCT; Saltzman, Layne, Pynoos, Olafson, Kaplow, & Boat, 2017)

Multidimensional Grief Therapy

MGT is an evidence-based treatment for youth who have experienced the death of a loved one. MGT is designed to decrease maladaptive grief reactions, posttraumatic stress, depression, and/or functional impairment while increasing adaptive grief and resilience.
(MGT; Kaplow, Layne, Pynoos, & Saltzman, in press)

Promoting Adaptive Grief Experiences

PAGES is an intervention for youth who are facing the impending death of a loved one, designed to harness protective factors that can reduce current and future distress.
(PAGES; Kaplow & Layne, 2011)