Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine for survivors of torture and refugee trauma: a descriptive report

ES Highfield, P Lama, MA Grodin, TJ Kaptchuk… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2012 - Springer
Refugees with trauma histories are a difficult medical population to treat. Acupuncture care
has gained acceptance in many mainstream hospitals in the United States, but research on …

[PDF][PDF] Torture rehabilitation: Reflections on treatment outcome studies

E Montgomery, N Patel - Torture, 2011 - drive.reindex.net
142 asylum-seekers, 9 2010) ten randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of treatments for PTSD
among refugees and asylum-seekers with altogether 528 participants were identified. The …

Torture

T Wenzel - Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2007 - journals.lww.com
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Treatments and interventions addressing chronic somatic pain in torture survivors: A systematic review

T Oren, N Ercanli, O Maayan, S Tham… - PLOS Global Public …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Torture survivors experience chronic, somatic pain that may be exacerbated by
environmental, social, and structural factors that extend beyond immediate traumatic events …

Survivors of war in northern Kosovo (III): The role of anger and hatred in pain and PTSD and their interactive effects on career outcome, quality of sleep and suicide …

SJ Wang, F Rushiti, X Sejdiu, S Pacolli, B Gashi… - Conflict and …, 2012 - Springer
Background The management of chronic debilitating health conditions after trauma remains
a challenge in post-conflict settings. The study aimed to expand current understanding of the …

[PDF][PDF] Long-term consequences of falanga torture

K Amris, S Torp-Pedersen, OV Rasmussen - Torture, 2009 - drive.reindex.net
The long-term consequences of falanga are probably the best described consequences of
exposure to specific forms of physical torture. Theories about casual lesions in the …

Torturing personification of chronic pain among torture survivors

N Tsur, G Shahar, R Defrin, Y Lahav… - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Consistent with the human tendency to anthropomorphize objects, events, and
situations, individuals might ascribe human characteristics to physical symptoms and …

[HTML][HTML] Lifetime sexual violence experienced by women asylum seekers and refugees hosted in high-income countries: literature review and meta-analysis

L Cayreyre, T Korchia, A Loundou, M Jego… - Journal of forensic and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Screening and care for victims of sexual violence (SV) among asylum seekers and refugees
(ASRs) living in High-income host countries were prioritized by the WHO in 2020. The lack of …

Treatment of traumatised refugees with basic body awareness therapy versus mixed physical activity as add-on treatment: Study protocol of a randomised controlled …

MS Nordbrandt, J Carlsson, LG Lindberg, H Sandahl… - Trials, 2015 - Springer
Background Treatment of traumatised refugees is one of the fields within psychiatry, which
has received little scientific attention. Evidence based treatment and knowledge on the …

Facing violence–a global challenge

T Wenzel, H Kienzler, A Wollmann - Psychiatric Clinics, 2015 - psych.theclinics.com
Violence has been shown to lead to a global challenge resulting in long-lasting social,
medical, and mental health sequelae. In this article, we focus on massive social violence …