Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Iran.
Omega (Westport). 2012;65(2):139-50. doi: 10.2190/OM.65.2.d.
Effective evidence-based intervention for traumatic bereavement is one of the current major research issues in the field of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. The "Writing for Recovery" group intervention is a new treatment approach developed by the Children and War Foundation for traumatized and bereaved children and adolescents after disasters. The purpose of this project was an empirical examination of this intervention with 12- to 18-year-old war bereaved Afghani refugees. Eighty-eight war bereaved Afghani refugees were screened using the Traumatic Grief Inventory for Children (TGIC). From those with the highest total score, 61 were randomly assigned to either an experimental (n = 29) or control group (n = 32). The experimental group received six sessions of group training on 3 consecutive days in their school. The difference of TGIC scores between the experimental group in pretest and posttest was significant (p = 0.001). Results of analysis of covariance also showed a significant effect of Writing for Recovery on the experimental group (p < 0.001). It is concluded that "Writing for Recovery" is an effective group intervention for bereaved children and adolescents after disasters.
创伤性丧亲的有效循证干预是儿童和青少年创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）领域当前的主要研究问题之一。“写作疗愈”团体干预是儿童与战争基金会为受灾难创伤和丧亲的儿童和青少年开发的一种新的治疗方法。该项目的目的是用创伤后应激障碍的 12 至 18 岁阿富汗战争丧亲难民来对这种干预进行实证检验。88 名创伤后应激障碍的阿富汗战争丧亲难民使用儿童创伤性悲伤量表（TGIC）进行了筛选。在总得分最高的人中，随机将 61 人分为实验组（n=29）或对照组（n=32）。实验组在连续 3 天的学校里接受了 6 次团体培训。实验组在预测试和后测试中 TGIC 分数的差异具有统计学意义（p=0.001）。协方差分析的结果也表明，“写作疗愈”对实验组有显著影响（p<0.001）。结论是，“写作疗愈”是灾难后丧亲儿童和青少年的一种有效的团体干预方法。
