Group Therapy With Male Asylum Seekers and Refugees With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- 1 September 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 200 (9), 758-765
- https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e318266f860
Abstract
Studies on group treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in asylum seekers and refugees are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three different trauma-focused day-treatment group programs for treatment of PTSD in male asylum seekers and refugees. Three treatment groups (n = 56) and a waitlisted control group (n = 16) of help-seeking Iranian and Afghani patients were assessed with a set of self-rated symptom checklists for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and psychoticism 1 week before and 2 weeks after treatment. There are no indications that the 2 days' group program with three nonverbal and two group psychotherapy sessions per week is less effective in reducing symptoms than the program with the same amount of sessions spread over 3 days per week. The trauma-focused day-treatment group seems a promising approach for treatment of PTSD among asylum seekers and refugees in industrialized settings.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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