Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting

Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting

In the past 20 years music therapy has been used extensively for trauma treatment. Most of the described methods of music therapy in trauma treatment deal with war veterans and victims of maltreatment or sexual abuse (Austin, 2002; Bonny, 1986). Music therapists connected to War Child, an organization working with children in war zones or in post-war environments, describe their experiences wit...

Moral Injury in Traumatized Refugees.

Music therapy in palliative setting

The expectations on the care of humans with an incurable disease are to console, to relieve pain and to take away somebody's fears. Therefore, palliative care tries to support terminally ill persons during the last stage of life and to ameliorate the living conditions. The question is how far music therapy can increase the quality of life. Until now, there is only small evidence for that, becau...

Treatment of traumatized refugees with Sertraline versus Venlafaxine in combination with psychotherapy – study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

BACKGROUND Sufficient evidence is lacking to draw final conclusions on the efficiency of medical and psychological treatments of traumatized refugees with PTSD. The pharmacological treatments of choice today for post-traumatic stress disorder are antidepressants from the subgroup selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, especially sertraline. The evidence for the use of selective serotonin reup...

Can neurofeedback reduce PTSD symptoms in severely traumatized refugees?