Based on a clinical case, this work aims to illustrate the multiple dimensions and modalities of psychological support in humanitarian work. It also shows the importance and relevance of implementing a transcultural approach when dealing with complex trauma and traumatic bereavement among refugees and asylum seekers in an emergency context.
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J Affect Disord
January 2025
Faculty of Health, IMPACCT, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia; Department of Palliative Care, Calvary Health Care, Kogarah, NSW, Australia.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many care systems limiting bereaved people's ability to access social, community, and professional support. This study investigated help-seeking of people living with probable prolonged grief disorder (PGD) to identify challenges and facilitators of care, with the aim of informing bereavement practice and policy recommendations.
Methods: Participants (N = 786; 96.
Cult Health Sex
January 2025
Department of Psychology, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
There is increasing recognition of the need to address the diverse experiences of individuals subjected to medically unnecessary, non-voluntary genital cutting in childhood. This includes children with intersex traits undergoing 'normalisation' surgeries and those with anatomically normative genitalia, such as female genital cutting or male circumcision. While most research on non-therapeutic childhood penile circumcision centres on the physical risks and benefits, far less attention has been given to the potential long-term mental health impacts, particularly from a psychotherapeutic perspective.
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January 2025
Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Following the death of a loved one, both approach behaviors related to the deceased (i.e., engagement with feelings, memories, and/or reminders of the deceased) and the avoidance of reminders of the death are theorized to precipitate severe and persistent grief reactions, termed prolonged grief.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Research Centre, McGill University, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Background: According to recent estimates, around 30 million people have taken Direct-to-Consumer DNA ancestry tests, typically marketed as a fun, harmless and exciting process of discovery. These tests estimate a user's ethnic ancestry, also matching users with biological relations on their database. This matching can produce a surprising 'not parent expected' discovery, where a user learns that an assumed parent (typically the father) is not a biological parent.
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December 2024
Department of Psychology, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey.
The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East have led to a substantial influx of Syrian refugees, exposing them to severe traumatic experiences and contributing to a range of mental health issues. This systematic review examines psychotherapeutic interventions employed in psychological treatment studies with Syrian refugees, focusing on 22 articles identified across Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect. The review highlights the need for psychotherapeutic intervention for Syrian refugees due to the high prevalence of post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, grief, and loss which results from an increased risk of various forms of violence and exploitation.
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