In March 2015 the psychological counselling service (Psychologische Familien- und Lebensberatung) of Caritas Ulm initiated a psychotherapy project for traumatized minor refugees. Besides individual and group therapy, networking and qualification of qualified personnel and volunteers, in autumn 2015 we started offering our services on-site in a large collective accommodation for asylum seekers in Ulm. This was mainly because - in contrast to unaccompanied, mostly adolescent, minor refugees - our services appeared to reach children only by chance. In our opinion this is mostly due to the fact that children’s suffering is often far less noticed. This paper describes our first year’s project work, followed by reports on the use of psychodrama groups with refugee children and on the therapeutic work in a collective accommodation for asylum seekers. © Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2016.

Therapy Psychodrama On-site counselling Minor refugees trauma

Germany refugee multimodality cancer therapy human Life Change Events Refugees life event Combined Modality Therapy violence Psychotherapy, Group Stress, Psychological group therapy mental stress Minors Adaptation, Psychological psychotherapy Humans psychology Adolescent male female adaptive behavior Child of Impaired Parents minor (person) Social Environment Psychodrama Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Child