This new edition offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the challenges, clinical concerns, and evidence-based approaches related to trauma and trauma-related disorders, as well as the current state of research on disorder-specific, trauma-focused psychotherapies, with particular attention to cultural sensitivity.
Exposure to life-threatening events that evoke profound helplessness and loss of control can result in severe psychological trauma. When such experiences are excessively aversive or horrific, they may not be successfully integrated into autobiographical memory. Instead, fragmented memory traces are formed which, unlike ordinary memories, do not undergo adaptive modification over time but remain rigid and enduring, as if frozen. These fragments can be reactivated by stimuli reminiscent of the original event and may subsequently re-emerge in the form of intrusive symptoms, such as flashbacks.
Given the high prevalence of trauma-related secondary disorders among individuals with migration and refugee backgrounds, there is an urgent need for culturally sensitive and non-discriminatory trauma-focused psychotherapeutic interventions in order to address the substantial gaps in mental health care.
Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Introduction.- Part 1: Trauma and Migration:
Epidemiological and conceptual issues.-
1. The epidemiology of Post-traumatic
Stress Disorder - a focus on refugee and migrant populations.-
2. Rethinking
Trauma Diagnoses as a Global Challenge.-
3. Cross-Cultural Communication with
Traumatised Immigrants.-
4. Trauma and Migration: The Role of Stigma.- Part
2: Trauma and Migration: Diagnostic issues.-
5. Clinical diagnostics of
traumatized foreign-born individuals - the culturally sensitive approach.-
6.
Psychosis in the Context of Trauma and Migration.-
7. Gender and Trauma.-
8.
Therapy Concept for Traumatised Refugees in Poland.- Part 3: Trauma and
Migration: Treatment issues.-
9. Intercultural Competence in the Treatment of
Traumatized Patients.-
10. EMDR in Working with Migrants and Refugees -
Trauma Therapy in an Intercultural Context.-
11. Migration, Trauma and
Resilience.-
12. Mental Health of Migrant and Refugee Children: Diagnostic
Challenges and Therapeutic Approaches to Complex Trauma.-
13. Evidence-based
trauma-centred psychotherapy for refugee and asylum seeking patients.-
14.
Cross cultural Psychotherapy for Immigrants and Refugees from Operational
Zones.-
15. Migration and Asylum Policy: Impact on Migrant Mental Health.-
16. Digital mental health in trauma and migration: opportunities and
challenges.-
17. The Role of Medication in Trauma-centered Therapy.-
18.
Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas in the Treatment of Traumatised Migrants.
Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Prof. Dr. is a Professor of Intercultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; specialist for neurology, psychotherapy, particularly in trauma focused psychotherapy and in EMDR therapy. She is chair of Research Unit on Intercultural Migration and Care Research, Social Psychiatry at Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin AND Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. Prof. Schouler-Ocak is board member of European Psychiatric Association (EPA); chair of Committee on Ethics of the EPA. She is also Board Member and President Elect of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP).
Furthermore, she is chair of the European Institute of Women´s Health (EIWH). She is also co-chair of Section of Intercultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Migration of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) and President of the German-Turkish Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Health (DTGPP). Her research interests focus on intercultural psychiatry and psychotherapy, trauma and trauma-related disorders, mental health and healthcare of immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities, suicidality, gender and ethics in psychiatry.
