Stress on local and international psychotherapists in the crisis region of Iraq

BMC Psychiatry
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan

Abstract

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 effectivel...Continue Reading

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Sep 5, 2020·Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences·Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Michael Noll-Hussong
Oct 6, 2020·International Review of Psychiatry·Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Thomas Wenzel

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