Känslomässig tillgänglighet hos traumatiserade flyktingfamiljer. Anknytningsbaserad behandlingsmodell för späd- och småbarn och flyktingföräldrar med PTSD
- Författare
- Brendler-Lindqvist, M., Daud, A., & Hermanson Tham, J.
- Titel
- Känslomässig tillgänglighet hos traumatiserade flyktingfamiljer. Anknytningsbaserad behandlingsmodell för späd- och småbarn och flyktingföräldrar med PTSD
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Stad
- Stockholm
- Utgivare
- Department of Women's and Children's Health
- Universitet
- Karolinska Institutet
- Sammanfattning
Emotional Availability among Traumatized Refugee Families
Red Cross Centre for Tortured Refugees in Stockholm, Sweden, started in 2011 a clinical
research pilot project in order to prevent second generation traumatization among children of
tortured and war-traumatized parents with complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD.
The project runs in co-operation with Karolinska Institutet, Department of Women's and
Children's Health, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit. The aim of the project was to
explore and evaluate a treatment program based on attachment theory and trauma theory for
parents and infants, age 0-24 months.
The early relation of mother-infant is fundamental for the survival of the infant and basic for
development of a child's social, emotional and cognitive health and capacity. According to
research parents with complex, PTSD, risk to transform their symptoms to their children.
The theoretical reference is based on attachment theory and Emotional Availability Scale,
EAS, as an investigating instrument. A clinical sample according to the project criteria was
selected. Five refugee families from the Middle East with established complex PTSD diagnos
have been participated in the treatment program, consisting of psycho pedagogical family
interventions, interplay therapy and group interventions.
The preliminary results of this pilot project indicated an outstanding need for developing a
treatment program focusing on mother and child emotional availability within refugee
families as a preventive intervention. This is the first report of a three-year project, financed
by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset.