Trial reportBMC psychiatry2015
Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy with unaccompanied refugee minors: a case series.
Trial report in BMC psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01516827 (Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for Children With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of trauma-focused treatments for refugee children: a systematic review and meta-analyses.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Pooled it
- Trauma treatment outcomes for PTSD in refugee and asylum-seeking minors with uncertain residence status: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Community-based interventions for improving mental health in refugee children and adolescents in high-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A Full Systematic Review on the Effects of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mental Health Symptoms in Child Refugees.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Pooled it
- Narrative analysis of interviews conducted with African unaccompanied refugee minors.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Trauma focused-cognitive behavioral therapy training effectiveness in promoting professional development of psychotherapists working with unaccompanied minors in Greece: a non-blinded randomized control trial.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2024Article
- Integrating Spirituality and Religious Beliefs in a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD with Latinx Unaccompanied Immigrant Children.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Prevalence, Contributing and Protective Factors, and Effective Interventions: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Psychotherapeutic and Psychosocial Interventions with Unaccompanied Minors: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Development and evaluation of a training program for interpreters in the field of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Trauma-focused treatment for traumatic stress symptoms in unaccompanied refugee minors: a multiple baseline case series.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Study Protocol for the SC-SD4ASA Project: A Self-Care/Self-Development Guidebook for Asylum-Seeking Adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Common elements of evidence-based trauma therapy for children and adolescents.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- Is Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Effective in Reducing Trauma Symptoms among Traumatized Refugee Children? A Systematic Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2021Article
- Overcoming barriers to mental health care: multimodal trauma-focused treatment approach for unaccompanied refugee minors.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- A qualitative exploration of what works for migrant adolescents in transcultural psychotherapy: perceptions of adolescents, their parents, and their therapists.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Mental Health of Refugee Children and Youth: Epidemiology, Interventions, and Future Directions.Annual review of public health · 2020Article
- Ethical Considerations in Providing Psychological Services to Unaccompanied Immigrant Children.Ethics & behavior · 2020Article
- Alone, but protected? Effects of social support on mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Providing manualized individual trauma-focused CBT to unaccompanied refugee minors with uncertain residence status: a pilot study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2019Article
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundUnaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) are a group who are vulnerable to developing posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). However, they rarely receive the treatment that is indicated and there are no treatment studies focusing exclusively on this group of adolescents. This case study evaluates the feasibility of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) for URMs with PTSS.
methodA health care utilization sample of N = 6 was assessed prior to and after treatment with TF-CBT. Therapists were asked to report differences in treatment application and content in comparison to TF-CBT standard protocol.
resultsWe found moderate to high levels of PTSS at baseline and a clinically significant decrease in symptoms at posttest. Some modifications to the TF-CBT protocol were made with regard to affective modulation which required more sessions than usual whereas fewer caregiver sessions were conducted.
conclusionTF-CBT is feasible in reducing PTSS in severely traumatized URMs. Further research with controlled trials is necessary.
trial registrationThe trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01516827. Registered 13 December 2011.
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