Research on psychotherapy for refugees in Germany: A systematic review on its transdisciplinary and transregional opening.

ABSTRACT: Recently, an increasing amount of research has focused on adapting psychotherapy concepts for refugees moving to Germany. For a long time, research from disciplines like anthropology and cultural studies has problematized the eurocentrism of psychology's theoretical premises and methodologies. Currently, scholarship around Global Mental Health and decolonization emphasizes how knowledge production from various disciplines and regions relates to this topic and could contribute to improving respective approaches. Consequently, this review aims at evaluating the actual transdisciplinary and transregional opening of studies on psychotherapeutic interventions for refugees in Germany. It provides a theoretically as well as empirically informed basis for looking at disciplinary premises, practice

SUBMITTER: Kleinschmitt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10996299 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature