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Children who survive torture: A systematic review of screening, documentation and treatment of torture injuries in children.
Torture
January 2025
Clinical Psychologist, Red Cross Treatment Center Uppsala, Swedish Red Cross.
Background: Children all over the world are subjected to torture, but few are identified as victims of these actions. Knowledge that facilitates identification, documentation, and treatment of torture injuries in children can allow redress and rehabilitation for more children in need.
Objective: To synthesise research regarding screening, documentation, and treatment of child survivors of torture.
Comparing the effectiveness of narrative therapy and EMDR-GTEP protocols in the treatment of post-traumatic stress in children exposed to humanitarian crises.
Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry
May 2024
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Action contre la Faim, Paris, France.
Background: The mental health of children living in humanitarian crisis situations is a major issue. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes great psychological suffering and has negative consequences on children's development. The aim of the study was to analyze retrospective data collected in a mental health and psychosocial support program for children in the Central African Republic, and to compare results of two trauma-focused treatment interventions: the narrative protocol Action contre la Faim (ACF)/KONO; and the EMDR-based Group Trauma Episode Protocol (G-TEP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAugmenting trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial.
World Psychiatry
February 2025
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Although trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), up to one-half of patients do not respond to this intervention. There is an urgent need to develop new strategies to improve treatment response. Training people to recall specific positive memories may augment treatment gains in TF-CBT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPost-traumatic stress disorder: evolving conceptualization and evidence, and future research directions.
World Psychiatry
February 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
The understanding of responses to traumatic events has been greatly influenced by the introduction of the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this paper we review the initial versions of the diagnostic criteria for this condition and the associated epidemiological findings, including sociocultural differences. We consider evidence for post-traumatic reactions occurring in multiple contexts not previously defined as traumatic, and the implications that these observations have for the diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to conduct a randomized control trial investigating the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) compared to a trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) in treating symptoms of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in female Afghan adolescents. Participants were randomly assigned to the ACT (20 participants; M = 14.8 [SD = 1.
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