Psychotherapy with traumatised refugees – the design of a randomised clinical trial

There is little evidence as to which kind of psychotherapy is the most effective in the treatment of traumatised refugees. At the Competence Center for Transcultural Psychiatry, a series of clinical trials have been conducted since 2008. The first results are pending publication. The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the challenges in adapting Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to the treatment of traumatised refugees, as well as describe a randomised clinical trial designed to test two such adaptations. In the described trial one group receives CBT with a focus on cognitive restructuring while the other group receives CBT focusing on Stress Management. A main goal of this setup is to test whether some, perhaps even most, of the traumatised refugees referred to treatment, may benefit from a more direct focus on current stress, and its alleviation through simple, repetitive exercises, compared to a focus on analysing and changing thought patterns.

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Reference: 
Erik Vindbjerg, Christoph Klimpke, Jessica Carlsson | 2014
In: Torture, ISSN 0904 1982 | 24 | 1 | 40-48