Traumatised refugees: An integrated dance and verbal therapy approach

Arts in Psychotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 289-296

  Koch, Sabine C ^a   Weidinger von der Recke, Beatrix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b REFUGIO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Dance movement therapy; Health; Patients' vignettes; Refugees; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; GERMANY; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EVENT; MUSIC THERAPY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; SURVIVOR;

EID: 73449135445     PISSN: 01974556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Abdallah-Steinkopff B. Psychotherapie bei Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung unter Mitwirkung von Dolmetschern. Verhaltenstherapie 9 (1999) 211-220. http://www.refugio-muenchen.de/pdf/mitwirkung-von-dolmetschern-vt99.pdf Verfügbar unter: http://www.refugio-muenchen.de/pdf/mitwirkung-von-dolmetschern-vt99.pdf
2. American Dance Therapy Association. ADTA Video Project on Violence [Videotape shown at International Panel of the 36th Annual Conference of the ADTA, Raleigh, NC]. Columbia, MD: ADTA (2001)
3. Arendt, M. (1983). Movement therapy with Vietnam veterans diagnosed as having post traumatic stress disorder: A pilot study. Master's thesis, Loyola Marymount University.
4. Baer U., and Frick-Baer G. Leibbewegungen. Methoden und Modelle der Tanz- und Bewegungstherapie (2001), Affenkönig Verlag, Neukirchen
5. Basoglu M., Mineka S., Paker M., Aker T., Livanou M., and Gok S. Psychological preparedness for trauma as a protective factor in survivors of torture. Psychological Medicine 27 6 (1997) 1421-1433
6. Birck, A., Pross, C., & Lansen, J. (Hrsg.) (2002). Das Unsagbare. Die Arbeit mit Traumatisierten im Behandlungszentrum für Folteropfer Berlin. Berlin: Springer.
7. Bittenbinder, E. (2008). Torture survivors and rights - tortured asylum seekers in Europe: The truth and its (professional) consequences. Vortrag auf dem 29. International Congress of Psychology, 20.-25.07.2008, Berlin (Germany).
8. Callaghan, K. (1991). Movement psychotherapy with torture survivors. Unpublished master's thesis, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia.
9. Callaghan K. Movement psychotherapy with adult survivors of political torture and organized violence. The Arts in Psychotherapy 20 (1993) 411-421
10. Callaghan K. In limbo: Movement psychotherapy with refugees and asylum seekers. In: Dokter D. (Ed). Arts therapists, refugees and migrants: Reaching across borders. (1998), Jessica Kingsley, London 25-40
11. Carey L. Expressive creative arts methods for trauma survivors (2006), J. Kingsley, London
12. Carlsson J.M., Mortensen E.L., and Kastrup M. A follow-up study of mental health and health-related quality of life in tortured refugees in multidisciplinary treatment. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders 193 10 (2005) 651-657
13. Carlsson J.M., Mortensen E.L., and Kastrup M. Predictors of mental health and quality of life in tortured refugees. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 60 1 (2006) 51-57
14. Carlsson J.M., Olsen D.R., Mortensen E.L., and Kastrup M. Mental health and health-related quality of life: A 10-year follow-up of tortured refugees. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders 194 10 (2006) 725-731
15. Casey E.S. Remembering: A phenomenological study (1987), Indiana University Press, Bloomington
16. Chang M. How do dance/movement therapists bring awareness of race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity into their practice?. In: Koch S.C., and Bräuninger I. (Eds). Advances in dance/movement therapy. Theoretical perspectives and empirical findings (2006), Logos, Berlin 192-206
17. Cunningham M., Silove D., and Storm V. Counselling survivors of torture and refugee trauma. Australian Family Physician 19 4 (1990) 501-510
18. De Jong J., Komproe I.H., Ommeren M.V., Masri M.E., Araya M., Khaled N., et al. Lifetime events and posttraumatic stress disorder in 4 postconflict settings. The Journal of the American Medical Association 286 (2001) 555-562
19. In: Dokter D. (Ed). Arts therapists, refugees and migrants: Reaching across borders. (1998), Jessica Kingsley, London
20. Eaton L.G., Doherty K.L., and Widrick R.M. A review of research and methods used to establish art therapy as an effective treatment method for traumatized children (2007), State University of New York College at Cortland
21. Eberhard-Kaechele M. Tanztherapie zwischen Retraumatisierung und Stabilisierung. Zeitschrift für Tanztherapie 21/22 (2005) 25-37
22. Ehlers A., Maercker A., and Boos A. Posttraumatic stress disorder following political imprisonment: The role of mental defeat, alienation, and perceived permanent change. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 109 1 (2000) 45-55
23. Endel, G. (1996). Therapeutische Arbeit unter Kriegsbedingungen. Zeitschrift für Integrative Bewegungstherapie, 1, 30-32. (Nachdruck aus MEDICA-Bulletin, April 1996.) Verfügbar unter: http://dgib.net/index.php?x=zeitschrift&y=online-archiv#a2006.
24. Epstein, J. Y. A. (2003). Healing the unnameable. Dance/movement therapy with female survivors of politically-motivated sexual assault: A case study. Unpublished master's thesis, Naropa University, Boulder, CO.
25. Fuchs T. Leib Raum person (2000), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart
26. Fuchs, T. (2004). The memory of the body. Available online at: www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/zpm/psychatrie/ppp2004/manuskript/fuchs.pdf.
27. Gaebel U., Ruf M., Schauer M., Odenwald M., and Neuner F. Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder among asylum seekers in Germany and its detection in the application process for asylum. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 35 1 (2006) 12-20 [article in German with English Abstract]
28. Gangsei D., and Deutsch A.C. Psychological evaluation of asylum seekers as a therapeutic process. Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture 17 2 (2007) 79-87
29. Gantt L., and Tinnin L.W. Intensive trauma therapy of PTSD and dissociation: An outcome study. The Arts in Psychotherapy 34 (2007) 69-80
30. Gray A.E.L. The body remembers: Dance movement therapy with an adult survivor of torture. American Journal of Dance Therapy 23 1 (2001) 29-43
31. Gray A.E.L. Dance movement therapy with a child survivor: A case study. Dialogus 6 1 (2001) 8-12
32. Gray A.E.L. The body as voice: Somatic psychology and dance/movement therapy with survivors of war and torture. Connections 3 2 (2002) 2-4
33. Gray A.E.L. Rituals of healing encountered among street children in Haiti. Stresspoints. The Newsletter for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (2002) 8-9
34. Harris, D.A. (2002): Mobilizing to empower and restore: Dance/movement therapy with children affected by war and organized violence. Master's thesis, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia. Available from UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor.
35. Harris D.A. Dance/movement therapy approaches to fostering resilience and recovery among African adolescent torture survivors. Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture 17 2 (2007) 134-155
36. Harris D.A. Pathways to embodied empathy and reconciliation after atrocity: Former boy soldiers in a dance/movement therapy group in Sierra Leone. International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work & Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict 5 3 (2007) 203-231
37. Hegemann T., and Salman R. Transkulturelle Psychiatrie - Konzepte für die Arbeit mit Menschen aus anderen Kulturen (2001), Psychiatrie Verlag, Bonn
38. Idemudia E.S. Nigeria. In: Pritz A. (Ed). Globalized Psychotherapy (2002), Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 575-593
39. Idemudia E.S. Global movement and health potential of black migrants in Germany: A study of mental health indices using MMPI. Psychotherapy Research 12 4 (2002) 445-461
40. Jaranson J.M., Butcher J., Halcon L., Johnson D.R., Robertson C., Savik K., et al. Somali and Oromo refugees: Correlates of torture and trauma history. American Journal of Public Health 94 4 (2004) 591-598
41. Johnson D. The role of the creative arts therapies in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological trauma. The Arts in Psychotherapy 14 (1987) 7-14
42. Johnson D.R., Lubin H., James M., and Hale K. Single session effects of treatment components within a specialized inpatient posttraumatic stress disorder program. Journal of Traumatic Stress 10 3 (1997) 377-390
43. Johnson H., and Thompson A. The development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in civilian adult survivors of war trauma and torture: A review. Clinical Psychology Review 28 1 (2008) 36-47
44. Kandel E.R. In search for memory. The emergence of a new science of mind (2006), Norton, New York
45. Karcher S. Body psychotherapy with survivors of torture. In: Wilson J.P., and Drozdek B. (Eds). Broken spirits (2004), Routledge, New York 528-560
46. Kestenberg J.S., and Brenner I. The last witness: The child survivor of the holocaust (1996), American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC
47. Kluft R.P. The argument for the reality of delayed memory recall. In: Appelbaum P.S., Uyehara L.A., and Elin M.R. (Eds). Trauma and memory: Clinical and legal aspects (1997), Oxford University Press, Oxford 25-57
48. Koch S.C. Zur psychosozialen Situation Asylsuchender am Beispiel der Stadt Heidelberg zur Zeit der deutsch-deutschen Wende (1999), Ibidem, Stuttgart
49. Koop I.I. Das Leibparadigma in der Traumatherapie. Erfahrungen aus der Arbeit mit traumatisierten Flüchtlingen und Gefolterten. Zeitschrift für Integrative Bewegungstherapie 1 (2002) 4-9. http://dgib.net/index.php%3Fx=zeitschrift%26y=online-archiv%23a2006 http://dgib.net/index.php?x=zeitschrift&y=online-archiv#a2006
50. In: Levy F.J. (Ed). Dance and other expressive art therapies: When words are not enough (1995), Routledge, New York
51. McGorry P. Working with survivors of torture and trauma: The Victorian foundation for survivors of torture in perspective. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 29 3 (1995) 463-472
52. Meekums B. A creative model for recovery from child sexual abuse trauma. The Arts in Psychotherapy 26 (1999) 247-259
53. Mollica R.F. The trauma story: The psychiatric care of refugee survivors of violence and torture. In: Ochberg F.M. (Ed). Post-traumatic therapy and victims of violence (1988), Brunner/Mazel, New York
54. Mollica R.F. The trauma story: A phenomenological approach to the traumatic life experiences of refugee survivors. Psychiatry 64 1 (2001) 60-63 [comment on: Psychiatry, 2001, 64(1), 40-59]
55. Montgomery E. Refugee children from the Middle East. Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine Supplement 54 (1998) 1-152
56. Montgomery E. Tortured families: A coordinated management of meaning analysis. Family Process 43 3 (2004) 349-350
57. Morris P., and Silove D. Cultural influences in psychotherapy with refugee survivors of torture and trauma. Hospital Community Psychiatry 43 8 (1992) 820-824
58. North M. Personality assessment through movement (1972), MacDonald & Evans, London
59. Ogden P., and Minton K. Sensorimotor psychotherapy: One method for processing traumatic memory. Traumatology 6 3 (2000). http://www.fsu.edu/~trauma/v6i3/v6i3a3.html Art. 3. Available at: http://www.fsu.edu/∼trauma/v6i3/v6i3a3.html
60. Pallaro P. Self and body-self: Dance movement therapy with Asian Americans. The Arts in Psychotherapy 24 3 (1997) 227-241
61. Penelope P. Art therapy with children after a disaster: A content analysis. The Arts in Psychotherapy 34 4 (2007) 350-361
62. Quensen-Diaz, E. (2002). The use of dance/movement therapy in re-establishing a sense of self in a refugee torture survivor. Unpublished master's thesis, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
63. Reca M. Danza/Movimiento terapia en la reconstruccón del mundo del sobreviviente de tortura por razones politicas. Hologramatica - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales UNLZ 6 4 (2007) 49-65. http://www.cienciared.com.ar/ra/doc.php%3Fn=532 Available online: http://www.cienciared.com.ar/ra/doc.php?n=532
64. Sandel S.L., Chaiklin S., and Lohn A. Foundations of dance/movement therapy: The life and work of Marian Chace (1993), ADTA, Columbia, MD
65. Schedlich C., and Frey-Sander E. Tanztherapeutische Interventionsmöglichkeiten in der Arbeit mit traumatisierte PatientInnen. Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.). Vorhang Auf! Tanz- und Dramatherapie im Rheinland (2001), Rhein-Eifel-Mosel, Pulheim
66. Schenk, B., & Schedlich, C. (2001). Trauma und Körperbild. Auswirkungen, Phänomene, und tanztherapeutische Überlegungen. In S. Trautmann-Voigt, & B. Voigt (Hrsg.), Bewegung und Bedeutung. Köln: Klaus Richter.
67. Silove D. The psychological effects of torture, mass human rights violations, and refugee trauma: Towards an integrated conceptual framework. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 187 (1999) 200-207
68. Silove D., Sinnerbrink I., Field A., Manicavasagar V., and Steel Z. Anxiety, depression and PTSD in asylum-seekers: Associations with pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors. The British Journal of Psychiatry 170 (1997) 351-357
69. Stepakoff S., Hubbard J., Katoh M., Falk E., Mikulu J.B., Nkhoma P., et al. Trauma healing in refugee camps in Guinea: A psychosocial program for Liberian and Sierra Leonean survivors of torture and war. American Psychologist 61 8 (2006) 921-932
70. Van der Hart O., and Brom D. When the victim forgets. Trauma-induced amnesia and its assessment in holocaust survivors. In: Shalev A.Y., Yehuda R., and McFarlane A.C. (Eds). International handbook of human response to trauma (2001), Plenum, New York 233-248
71. Van der Kolk B.A. Psychological trauma (1987), American Psychiatric Press, Washington
72. Van der Kolk B.A. The body keeps the score: Memory and the evolving psychobiology of post traumatic stress. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 1 5 (1994) 253-265
73. Van der Kolk B.A. Clinical implications of neuroscience research in PTSD. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1071 (2006) 277-293
74. Van der Kolk B.A., Pelcovitz D., Roth S., Mandel F.S., McFarlane A., and Herman J.L. Dissociation, affect dysregulation and somatization. The complex nature of adaptation to trauma. American Journal of Psychiatry 153 Festschrift Supplement (7) (1996) 83-93
75. Wendlandt-Baumeister, M. (2005). Annäherungen an das Unsagbare. Kunsttherapie mit Folterüberlebenden. In F. von Spreti, P. Martius, & H. Förstl (Hrsg.), Kunsttherapie bei psychischen Störungen (S. 159-173). München: Urban & Fischer/Elsevier.
76. Wenk-Anson M. Treatment of torture survivors. Influence of the exile situation on the course of the traumatic process and therapeutic possibilities. Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture 17 2 (2007) 88-95
77. Yehuda R., Elkin A., Binder-Brynes K., Kahana B., Southwick S.M., Schmeidler J., et al. Dissociation in aging holocaust survivors. American Journal of Psychiatry 153 (1996) 935-940