Beschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.
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