What works? Lessons from a pretrial qualitative study to inform a multi-component intervention for refugees and asylum seekers: Learning through play and EMDR group traumatic episode protocol
Learning Through Play and EMDR Group Treatment Protocol designed to address parental mental health with refugees.
Article Abstract
“Almost half of the trials failed to recruit their targeted sample size of which 89% could be preventable. Successful implementation of mental health trials in a context of forcibly displaced individuals can be even more challenging. Mental health difficulties have the potential to impact parenting skills, which are linked to poor development in children, while parenting interventions can improve parents’ mental health and parenting behaviors. However, the evidence on parenting interventions for refugees is limited. A parenting intervention, Learning Through Play Plus Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Group Treatment Protocol, has been designed to address parental mental health. This pretrial qualitative study, conducted with refugees, asylum seekers and professionals, aimed to explore their perceptions of the intervention and to identify barriers and recommendations for better engagement, recruitment, and delivery. Three themes were generated from thematic analysis: the content of the intervention, suggestions for improvement and implementation, and understanding the role of the facilitator. These themes provided insights into the issues that might predict the barriers for delivery of the intervention and offered several changes, including destigmatization strategies to improve engagement.”
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Article Access
Open Access
Kaptan, S. K., Yilmaz, B., Varese, F., Andriopoulou, P., & Husain, N. (2022). What works? Lessons from a pretrial qualitative study to inform a multi-component intervention for refugees and asylum seekers: Learning through play and EMDR group traumatic episode protocol. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(1), 361-381. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22908
Date
June 14, 2022
Creator(s)
Safa Kemal Kaptan, Betul Yilmaz, Filippo Varese
Contributor(s)
Panoraia Andriopoulou, Nusrat Husain
Client Population
Children, Families/Parents, Immigrants/Refugees
Practice & Methods
Group, Play Therapy, Protocols
Extent
21 pages
Publisher
Wiley
Rights
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Community Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
APA Citation
Kaptan, S. K., Yilmaz, B., Varese, F., Andriopoulou, P., & Husain, N. (2022). What works? Lessons from a pretrial qualitative study to inform a multi-component intervention for refugees and asylum seekers: Learning through play and EMDR group traumatic episode protocol. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(1), 361-381. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22908
Audience
EMDR Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals
Language
English
Content Type
Article, Peer-Reviewed
Access Type
External Resource, Open Access
