Nervenheilkunde
Volume 35, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 385-390

Treating asylum seekers and refugees with mental health difficulties and traumatization [Behandlung psychisch belasteter und traumatisierter Asylsuchender und Flüchtlinge: Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen therapeutischem und politischem Alltag] (Article)

Kluge U.*
  • a Zentrum für Interkulturelle Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (ZIPP), Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Abteilung Migration, Psychische und Körperliche Gesundheit und Gesundheitsförderung, Berliner Institut für Empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Abstract

The article gives an overview of facts and figures, background information on health legislation and the current psychosocial situation of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany. It portrays the challenges for psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial care. Using an extended concept of traumatization, which takes not only medical, but also psychological, political and social approaches into account, both the opportunities and the difficulties in those treatments are illuminated. Moreover, based on the experience of the Centre for cross-cultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Mitte, the tensions between the therapeutic and social- political everyday are portrayed. The article finishes with an outlook on the more recent projects and initiatives at the clinic. © Schattauer 2016.

Author Keywords

Psychosocial care delivery Refugees Extended concept of traumatization

Index Keywords

Germany university law psychosocial care cultural psychiatry Article human experiment psychotherapy asylum seeker mental health human tension medicine

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979747764&partnerID=40&md5=ebd8a00998ca2ae04bfc00a9b488acba

ISSN: 07221541
Cited by: 3
Original Language: German