Dr. Rene Searles McClatchey

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  "Often children who have lost a parent are given grief therapy, and we've found that grief therapy doesn't help if you don't take care of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms first," study author Rene Searles McClatchey, an adjunct professor in the UGA School of Social Work, said in a prepared statement.
  
  In a study of 100 children, the researchers investigated the effectiveness of a weekend camp that blends traditional activities such as hiking and canoeing with therapy for grief and PTSD.McClatchey is founder and director of the Camp Magik, a nonprofit organization.
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  Previous research conducted by McClatchey found that children who received grief counseling at the camp without PTSD treatment didn't improve or even fared worse after attending the camp.
  
  "Delving into their grief without addressing their PTSD got them thinking about their loss, but we didn't teach them the coping mechanisms to deal with the PTSD symptoms that were stirred up," McClatchey said.

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  "Often children who have lost a parent are given grief therapy, and we've found that grief therapy doesn't help if you don't take care of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms first," study author Rene Searles McClatchey, an adjunct professor in the UGA School of Social Work, said in a prepared statement.
  
  In a study of 100 children, the researchers investigated the effectiveness of a weekend camp that blends traditional activities such as hiking and canoeing with therapy for grief and PTSD.McClatchey is founder and director of the Camp Magik, a nonprofit organization.
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  Previous research conducted by McClatchey found that children who received grief counseling at the camp without PTSD treatment didn't improve or even fared worse after attending the camp.
  
  "Delving into their grief without addressing their PTSD got them thinking about their loss, but we didn't teach them the coping mechanisms to deal with the PTSD symptoms that were stirred up," McClatchey said.

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  Presenters: Irene Searles McClatchey, Ph.D., LCSW, Founder and Director, Camp Magik, Inc; Bent Jones, LCSW, Board Member, Camp Magik, Inc.

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  The finding, scheduled to be published in the May issue of the journal Research on Social Work Practice, has major implications for helping children cope with grief, said lead author Rene Searles McClatchey."Often children who have lost a parent are given grief therapy, and we've found that grief therapy doesn't help if you don't take care of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms first," said McClatchey, an adjunct professor in the UGA School of Social Work.McClatchey co-authored the study with UGA associate professor Elizabeth Vonk and University of California, Riverside assistant professor Gregory Palardy.
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  McClatchey is also founder and director of Camp Magik, a non-profit organization that provides weekend camps for children that blend traditional camp activities such as canoeing and hiking with therapy for PTSD and grief.McClatchey and her colleagues studied 100 children to test the effectiveness of the camp-based intervention.They found that:The odds of continuing to experience severe PTSD were 4.5 times higher for children who did not attend the camp compared to those who did; andThe odds of experiencing severe grief were 3.6 times greater for children who did not attend the camp than for those who did.McClatchey said that in addition to showing that camp-based interventions work, the study found a link between post-traumatic stress disorder and grief.She explains that a previous study she conducted in 2005 in which children attended camp and underwent grief counseling without PTSD treatment found that the children didn't improve or, in some cases, fared worse after the camp."Delving into their grief without addressing their PTSD got them thinking about their loss," McClatchey said, "but we didn't teach them the coping mechanisms to deal with the PTSD symptoms that were stirred up."
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  McClatchey said the average cost per camper is about $250 for the three-day weekend, making it more cost effective than individual counseling, which costs an average of $100 per hour and requires multiple sessions to be effective. (Camp Magik is supported by donations so that children and their families never pay to attend.)
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  "There's really no way of describing the difference between how they are when they arrive on Friday and how much better they are when they leave on Sunday," McClatchey said.

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  Presenters: Irene Searles McClatchey, Ph.D., LCSW, Founder and Director, and Bent Jones, LCSW, Board Member, Camp Magik, Inc.

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  If you have any questions, please call Rene Searles McClatchey at 404.790.0140.We hope to see you at Camp Magik!!
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Dr. Rene Searles McClatchey
  
  Founder and Executive Director
  
  3377 Ridgewood Road, NW
  
  Atlanta, GA 30327

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  "Often children who have lost a parent are given grief therapy, and we've found that grief therapy doesn't help if you don't take care of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms first," study author Rene Searles McClatchey, an adjunct professor in the UGA School of Social Work, said in a prepared statement.
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  McClatchey is founder and director of the Camp Magik, a nonprofit organization.
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  Previous research conducted by McClatchey found that children who received grief counseling at the camp without PTSD treatment didn't improve or even fared worse after attending the camp.
  
  "Delving into their grief without addressing their PTSD got them thinking about their loss, but we didn't teach them the coping mechanisms to deal with the PTSD symptoms that were stirred up," McClatchey said.

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  Rene Searles McClatchey, Ph.D., LCSW, Chairman
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  Dr. Rene Searles McClatchey
  
  Dr. Rene Searles McClatchey, Ph.D., LCSW, graduated from the University of Lund in Sweden, with a degree in Business Administration and Foreign Languages. She received her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Social Work from the University of Georgia and holds a clinical license in social work. After extensive work with abused children in mental health centers, Department of Family and Children Services and private practice, Rene began an extensive sojourn in hospice. During this time she developed children's bereavement groups and grief camps, and designed new treatment tools for work with children experiencing grief. Rene left the clinical arena in 2003 to further her knowledge about children and grief through studies and research.
  
  Rene has presented statewide workshops on treatment of abused children to healthcare providers in addition to numerous workshops on children and grief and adolescent suicide. She has been interviewed on a number of occasions on national television as an expert in the area of children and grief.
  
  Rene currently serves as an adjunct professor at University of Georgia and Kennesaw State University. She has also served as a field instructor for the University of Georgia and Clarke Atlanta University supervising and teaching graduate students in the areas of assessments, theories and treatment interventions in the dying and grieving process. She was instrumental in forming the Georgia Society for Clinical Oncology Social Work, now named SWOG. She is the Founder and Director of Camp Magik and a published author of research on children and grief.
  
  Rene enjoys camping, hiking, reading, and long distance in-line skating. She is the mother of two daughters and the bonus mother of three.

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  Dr. Rene Searles McClatchey
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  Dr. Rene Searles McClatchey, LCSW, graduated from the University of Lund in
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  Children Services, and private practice, Rene brought her
  
  expertise in the area of children and adolescents to an Atlanta hospice in 1991.During this time she developed children's bereavement groups and grief camps, and designed new treatment tools for work with children experiencing grief.In 2000 she left hospice work to become the program director for Georgia Cancer Foundation, where she further developed and expanded her work aiding grieving children.Rene left this organization in 2003 to further her knowledge about children and grief through studies and research.
  
  Rene has presented statewide workshops on treatment of abused children to healthcare providers in addition to numerous workshops on children and grief and adolescent suicide.She has been interviewed on a number of occasions on national television as an expert in the area of children and grief.
  
  Rene has served as a field instructor for the University of Georgia and Clarke Atlanta University supervising and teaching graduate students in the areas of assessments, theories and treatment interventions in the dying and grieving process.She was instrumental in forming the Georgia Society for Clinical Oncology Social Work.She is the Founder and Director of Camp Magik.
  
  Rene enjoys camping, reading, music, and long distance in-line skating.She is the mother of two daughters.

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  "Often children who have lost a parent are given grief therapy, and we've found that grief therapy doesn't help if you don't take care of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms first," study author Rene Searles McClatchey, an adjunct professor in the UGA School of Social Work, said in a prepared statement.
  
  In a study of 100 children, the researchers investigated the effectiveness of a weekend camp that blends traditional activities such as hiking and canoeing with therapy for grief and PTSD. McClatchey is founder and director of the Camp Magik, a nonprofit organization.
  ...
  Previous research conducted by McClatchey found that children who received grief counseling at the camp without PTSD treatment didn't improve or even fared worse after attending the camp.
  
  "Delving into their grief without addressing their PTSD got them thinking about their loss, but we didn't teach them the coping mechanisms to deal with the PTSD symptoms that were stirred up," McClatchey said.

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