ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2019
Providing manualized individual trauma-focused CBT to unaccompanied refugee minors with uncertain residence status: a pilot study.
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- 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
- Research on psychotherapy for refugees in Germany: A systematic review on its transdisciplinary and transregional opening.Transcultural psychiatry · 2024Pooled 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
- Systematic review on somatization in a transcultural context among teenagers and young adults: Focus on the nosography blur.Frontiers in psychiatry · 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
- Challenges and facilitators in treating unaccompanied young refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder in a dissemination trial: a qualitative study with psychotherapists.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Investigating factors influencing utilization of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy among unaccompanied young refugees: an exploratory analysis.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Home, School, and Community-based Services for Forcibly Displaced Youth and Their Families.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- 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
- A Mobile-Based Preventive Intervention for Young, Arabic-Speaking Asylum Seekers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Design and Implementation.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Changes in life satisfaction among unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee minors who participated in teaching recovery techniques (TRT).Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Psychotherapeutic and Psychosocial Interventions with Unaccompanied Minors: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Potential traumatic events and symptoms of post-traumatic stress in unaccompanied refugee minors-a comparison with youth in foster care.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Editorial: Mental health in children and adolescents with a refugee background.Frontiers in psychology · 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
- Mental health problems in unaccompanied young refugees and the impact of post-flight factors on PTSS, depression and anxiety-A secondary analysis of the Better Care study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Investigating the potential of a novel internet-based cognitive behavioural intervention for Dari and Farsi speaking refugee youth: A feasibility study.Internet interventions · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundUnaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) seeking asylum show high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. In addition, they experience post-migration stressors like an uncertain residence status. Therefore, psychotherapeutic interventions for URMs are urgently needed but have scarcely been investigated up to now. This study aimed to examine manualized individual trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT) for URMs with PTSD involving their professional caregivers (i.e. social workers in child and adolescent welfare facilities).
methodsWe conducted an uncontrolled pilot study with three follow-up assessments (post-intervention, 6 weeks, and 6 months). Participants who met the PTSD diagnostic criteria were treated in a university psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic in Germany with a mean of 15 sessions of TF-CBT. All participants (n = 26) were male UM (M
resultsAt post-intervention the completer sample (n = 19) showed significantly decreased PTSD symptoms,
conclusionsIntervention studies are feasible with URMs. This pilot study presents preliminary evidence for the efficacy of an evidence-based intervention like TF-CBT in reducing PTSD symptoms in URMs. Stressors related to asylum proceedings after the end of therapy have the potential to negatively influence psychotherapy outcomes.
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