Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychotraumtology, University of Duhok, Zakho Street, Duhok, Iraq.
Institute of Transcultural Health Science State University Baden-Württemberg, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 30, D-78054, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
BMC Psychiatry. 2020 Mar 10;20(1):110. doi: 10.1186/s12888-020-02508-0.
Local and international Psychotherapists working with war survivors are confronted with a whole variety of burdens. The close contact to their clients and the conversations about terror, flight and genocides, they are frequently subject to vicarious traumatization resulting from these events and reveal a risk of developing secondary traumatization.
We interviewed 54 local psychotherapists and 28 psychotherapists originating from abroad who were treating survivors of ISIS terror in refugee camps organised by non-government organisations (NGOs).
The results show that local and non-local psychotherapists who work in a context of humanitarian crises reveal a risk of developing secondary traumatization. The results of this present study would also indicate that the secondary traumatization depends both on individual characteristics such as bonding styles and personal experiences and also on the ambient characteristics such as the degree of traumatization of the patients.
The study revealed that the local and non-local psychotherapists had a range of different pressure factors and helpful resources which indicated that better caring/support, supervision and organization are needed to enable psychotherapists to perform more effectively in war regions from the point of view of preventive healthcare.
与战争幸存者合作的当地和国际心理治疗师面临着各种各样的负担。由于这些事件,他们经常与客户密切接触,并就恐怖、逃亡和种族灭绝进行对话,从而导致替代性创伤,并存在继发创伤的风险。
我们采访了 54 名当地心理治疗师和 28 名来自国外的心理治疗师,他们在非政府组织(NGO)组织的难民营中治疗 ISIS 恐怖的幸存者。
结果表明,在人道主义危机背景下工作的当地和非当地心理治疗师存在继发创伤的风险。本研究的结果还表明,继发创伤既取决于个体特征,如结合方式和个人经历,也取决于环境特征,如患者的创伤程度。
该研究表明,当地和非当地心理治疗师有一系列不同的压力因素和有益的资源,这表明需要更好的关怀/支持、监督和组织,以使心理治疗师能够在战争地区更有效地进行预防性医疗保健。