New treatment approaches: integrating new media in the treatment of war and torture victims
Knaevelsrud, Christine, Wagner, Birgit, Karl, Anke and Mueller, Julia (2007) New treatment approaches: integrating new media in the treatment of war and torture victims. Torture, 17, (2), 67-78.
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The diagnostic process and treatment of victims of war and torture is associated with a number of difficulties. This article will provide an overview of three different approaches on how the new media may be integrated into the treatment of survivors
of torture and war to face some of the challenges. Illiteracy is a common problem and makes it difficult to apply standardized psychological assessment procedures. Also, the majority of survivors of torture and war do not have access to any psychotherapeutic treatment due to geographical limitations or limitations concerning psychotherapeutic treatment capacity. Furthermore, chronic psychological disorders such as (complex) Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are often seen
with comorbid chronic pain disorders, which present a therapeutic challenge. The Treatment Center for Torture Victims, Berlin, in cooperation with the University of Zurich, developed a number of approaches to address these challenges: 1) MultiCASI - to standardize the diagnostic process an audiovisual diagnostic tool was developed which allows illiterate individuals to answer standardized psychological questionnaires without the help of interpreters; 2) A virtual treatment center for posttraumatic stress disorder for traumatized patients in Iraq and other Arab speaking postconflict
countries; 3) Utility of Biofeedback (BF) in chronic (somatoform) pain and in traumatized patients: to address the chronic pain syndrome presented by most survivors, a biofeedback- supported cognitive-behavioral therapy approach was
developed and successfully tested in a pilot study.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Thematic issue focused on the IX IRCT Symposium on Torture. |
| ISSNs: | 1018-8185 (print) |
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| Keywords: | victims of torture and war, PTSD, pain, assessment, treatment, computer |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology > Division of Clinical Neuroscience |
| Item ID: | 48066 |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:50 |
| Contributors: | Knaevelsrud, Christine (Author) Wagner, Birgit (Author) Karl, Anke (Author) Mueller, Julia (Author) |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Additional Information: | Thematic issue focused on the IX IRCT Symposium on Torture. |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | karl@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48066 |
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