ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2021
Overcoming barriers to mental health care: multimodal trauma-focused treatment approach for unaccompanied refugee minors.
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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
- Quality of mental health care for forcibly displaced children and adolescents in the WHO European region: A scoping review of barriers and facilitators.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- 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
- Psychotherapeutic and Psychosocial Interventions with Unaccompanied Minors: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Trauma-focused treatment for traumatic stress symptoms in unaccompanied refugee minors: a multiple baseline case series.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Multimodal co-therapy for unaccompanied minors: a qualitative study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study evaluated the feasibility of a short-term, multimodal trauma-focused treatment approach adapted specifically for unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) in the Netherlands. This approach aims to overcome barriers to mental health care and to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.
methodsAn uncontrolled study was conducted, evaluating the main request for help, treatment integrity and feasibility, and the course of symptoms of PTSD (Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale-13) and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire modified for Adolescents).
resultsIn total, 41 minors were included in the study. Most participants were male (n = 27), predominately from Eritrea (75.6%) with a mean age of 16.5 (SD = 1.5). Minors mostly reported psychological problems, such as problems sleeping, and psychosocial problems, including worries about family reunification. Deviations from the approach were made to meet the current needs of the minors. Factors limiting the feasibility of the approach were often related to continuous stressors, such as news concerning asylum status.
conclusionsThe results provide a first indication that this approach partly overcomes barriers to mental health care and emphasize the added value of collaborating with intercultural mediators and offering outreach care.
trial registrationThe study was registered in the Netherlands Trial Register (NL8585), 10 April 2020, Retrospectively registered, https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/8585 .
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