Invited Commentaries: Northwood, A., & Orieny, P. (2014). Experiences with Narrative Exposure Therapy across three income contexts. Intervention, 12(2), 292-294. As members of an international nongovernmental organisation that operates across a variety of income contexts, and works with local... Read more
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Invited commentaries: Neuner, F., Schauer, M., & Elbert, T. (2014). On the efficacy of Narrative Exposure Therapy: a reply to Mundt et al. Intervention, 12(2), 267-278. In their review article, Mundt et al. (2014), ‘Evaluating interventions for posttraumatic stress... Read more
Mundt, A. P., Wünsche, P., Heinz, A., & Pross, C. (2014). Evaluating interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder in low and middle income countries: Narrative Exposure Therapy. Intervention, 12(2), 250-266. This article provides a framework for evaluating randomised controlled efficacy... Read more
A refugee population exposed to aerial bombing was assessed for psychosocial sequelae within two months. Forty-three members over 15 years were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Seventy-four percent had experienced an immediate but transient stress reaction. Subsequently, PTSD, anxiety,... Read more
Objectives: The present study examinedtraumatic experiences, PTSD, and co-morbid symptoms in relation to neuropsychological and school performance in school children affected by two decades of civil war and unrest. Method: The epidemiological survey of children’s mental health included a... Read more
We aimed to examine outcomes, moderators and mediators of a preventive school-based mental health intervention implemented by paraprofessionals in a war-affected setting in northern Sri Lanka. A cluster randomized trial was employed. Subsequent to screening 1,370 children in randomly... Read more
The paper discusses one psychosocial intervention, a children\'s play activity programme, which has been run in a number of refugee camps within Sri Lanka since 1992 to the present. It is a multi-level intervention which works with children, their... Read more
Robbie Chase was the young physician heading this project. In a Toronto café, he encountered Paul Hogan, a remarkable artist who had created The Spiral Garden, combining connection with the Earth and creative arts in the rehabilitation of neurologically... Read more
Using survey data from 325 Tsunami-exposed adolescents and mothers from two villages in southern Sri Lanka, this pilot study investigated influences of Tsunami exposure and subsequent psychosocial losses on adolescent depressive and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Findings generally... Read more
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