Mental health professionals' perspective on a brief transdiagnostic psychological intervention for Afghan asylum seekers and refugees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While many elaborated treatment protocols focus on post-traumatic stress symptoms, a large number of refugees suffer from a range of mental health problems. Thus, brief and transdiagnostic psychological interventions may be helpful first interventions for help-seeking refugees and asylum seekers in a stepped-care approach. Critically, there is limited research on how transdiagnostic interventions are received in general practice in non-specialized mental healthcare settings in high-income countries, where often only mental health professionals (MHPs) are legally allowed to treat people with mental disorders. MHPs may thus deliver such interventions, but their perspective towards them has not yet been investigated.

Objective

We aimed to investigate MHPs' perception

SUBMITTER: Knefel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9176353 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature