The number of refugees has increased significantly over the past few years. PTSD and depression are among the most common mental health problems among refugees. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an effective treatment for PTSD, is…
Music therapy and other experiential therapies such as the creative arts therapies hold an essential place in trauma work as they can provide an unobtrusive, positive format for debriefing responding personnel. By providing diffusion and creating an…
The paper is about what usually is referred to as collective trauma and specifies this term. 'Collective trauma' here is used as a generic term that covers mass trauma, so called 'simple' large group trauma and chosen trauma. These different types…
This paper describes the application of EMDR as an early trauma-focused treatment with children involved in mass disasters (natural disasters, accidents and intentionally provoked incidents). EMDR treatment was part of a comprehensive treatment of…
