Mental health interventions for survivors of torture: Current status and future directions

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-189

  Ginzburg, Karn ^a,b   Neria, Yuval ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855709075     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000068     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Agger, I., & Jensen, S. B. (1990). Testimony as ritual and evidence in psychotherapy for political refugees. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1, 115-130.
2. Agger, I., Raghuvanshi, L., Shabana Khan, S., Polatin, P., &Laursen, L. K. (2009). Testimonial therapy. A pilot project to improve psychological wellbeing among survivors of torture in India. Torture, 19, 204-217.
3. Basoglu, M., Ekblad, S., Baarnhielmc, S., & Livanou, M. (2004). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of tortured asylum seekers: A case study. Anxiety Disorders, 18, 357-369.
4. Bichescu, D., Neuner, F., Schauer, M., & Elbert, T. (2007). Narrative exposure therapy for political imprisonment-related chronic posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2212-2220.
5. Campbell, T. A. (2007). Psychological assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of torture survivors: A review. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 628-641.
6. Cienfuegos, A. J., & Monelli, C. (1983). The testimony of political repression as a therapeutic instrument. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 53, 43-50.
7. Eisenman, D. P., Gelberg, L., Liu, H., & Shapiro, M. F. (2003). Mental health and health-related quality of life among adult Latino primary care patients living in the United States with previous exposure to political violence. Journal of the American Medical Association, 290, 627-634.
8. Green, D., Rasmussen, A., & Rosenfeld, B. (2010). Defining torture: A review of 40 years of health science research. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23, 528-531.
9. Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and recovery: The aftermath of violence -from domestic abuse to political terror. New York, NY: Basic Books.
10. Holmquist, R., Andersen, K., Anjum, T., & Alinder, B. (2006). Change in self-image and PTSD symptoms in short-term therapies with traumatized refugees. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 20, 251-265.
11. Igreja, V., Kleijn, W. C., Schreuder, B. J. N., Bas, J. N., Van Dijk, J. A., & Verschuur, M. (2004). Testimony method to ameliorate post-traumatic stress symptoms: Communitybased intervention study with Mozambican civil war survivors. British Journal of Psychiatry, 184, 251-257.
12. Jørgensen, U., Melchiorsen, H., Graae Gottlieb, A., Hallas, V., & Vinther Nielsen, C. (2010). Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to describe the functioning of traumatized refugees. Torture, 20, 57-75.
13. Keller, A., Lhewa, D., Rosenfeld, B., Sachs, E., Aladjem, A., Cohen, I., Porterfield, K. (2006). Traumatic experiences and psychological distress in an urban refugee population seeking treatment services. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 194, 188-194.
14. Magwaza, A. S. (1999). Assumptive world of traumatized South African adults. Journal of Social Psychology, 139, 622-630.
15. Manneschmidt, S., & Griese, K. (2009). Evaluating psychosocial group counseling with Afghan women: Is this a useful intervention? Torture, 19, 41-50.
16. McIvor, R. J., & Turner, S. W. (1995). Assessment and treatment approaches for survivors of torture. British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, 705-711.
17. Neria, Y., Solomon, Z., Ginzburg, K., Dekel, R., Enoch, D., &Ohry, A. (2000). Posttraumatic residues of captivity:A follow-up of Israeli ex-prisoners of war. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 61, 39-46.
18. Neuner, F., Schauer, M., Klaschik, C., Karunakara, U., & Elbert, T. (2004). A comparison of narrative exposure therapy, supportive counseling, and psychoeducation for treating posttraumatic stress disorder in an African refugee settlement. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 579-587.
19. O'Donnell, C., Cook, J. M., Thompson, R., & Neria, Y. (2006). Verbal and physical aggression in World War II former prisoners of war: Role of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 19, 859-866.
20. Palic, S., & Elklit, A. (2009). An explorative outcome study of CBT-based multidisciplinary treatment in a diverse group of refugees from a Danish treatment centre for rehabilitation of traumatized refugees. Torture, 19, 248-270.
21. Rufer, M., Held, D., Cremer, J., Fricke, S., Moriz, S., Peter, H., &Hand, I. (2006). Dissociation as a predictor of cognitive behavior therapy outcome in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75, 40-46.
22. Solomon, Z., Dekel, R., & Mikulincer, M. (2008). Complex trauma of war captivity: A prospective study of attachment and post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological Medicine, 38, 1427-1434.
23. Solomon, Z., Dekel, R., & Zerach, G. (2009). Posttraumatic stress disorder and marital adjustment: The mediating role of forgiveness. Family Process, 48, 546-558.
24. Somnier, F. E., & Genefke, I. K. (1986). Psychotherapy for victims of torture. British Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 323-329.
25. Steel, Z., Chey, T., Silove, D., Marnane, C., Bryant, R. A., & van Ommeren, M. (2009). Association of torture and other potentially traumatic events with mental health outcomes among populations exposed to mass conflict and displacement. Journal of the American Medical Association, 302, 537-549.
26. Stepakoff, S., Hubbard, J., Katoh, M., Falk, E., Mikulu, J., Nkhoma, P., & Omagwa, Y. (2006). Trauma healing in refugee camps in Guinea: A psychosocial program for Liberian and Sierra Leonean survivors of torture and war. American Psychologist, 4, 921-932.
27. Taylor, S., Fedoroff, I. C., Koch, W. J., Thordarson, D. S., Fecteau, G., & Nicki, R. M. (2001). Posttraumatic stress disorder arising after road traffic collisions: Patterns of response to cognitive-behavior therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69, 541-551.
28. Thapa, S. B., Van Ommeren, M., Sharma, B., & de Jong, J. T. V. M. (2003). Psychiatric disability among tortured Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 2032-2037.
29. Tol, W. A., Komproe, I. H., Jordans, M. J. D., Tjapa, S. B., Sharma, B., & De Jong, J. T. V. M. (2009). Brief multidisciplinary treatment for torture survivors in Nepal: A naturalistic comparative study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 55, 39-56.
30. Weine, S. M., Kulenovic, A. D., Pavkovic, I., & Gibbons, R. (1998). Testimony psychotherapy in Bosnian refugees: A pilot study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 1720-1726.
31. Wenzel, T., Griengl, H., Stompe, T., Mirzaei, S., & Kieffer, W. (2000). Psychological disorders in survivors of torture: Exhaustion, impairment and depression. Psychopathology, 33, 292-296.