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School-based Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Group Intervention for Refugee Children who have Experienced War-related Trauma
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of a school-based group intervention designed for children who have experienced trauma. Twenty-six children (aged 11-15 years) who were refugees or asylum-seekers from war-affected countries participated. The manual-based intervention consisted of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques and was implemented within secondary schools. The treatment group ( n = 15) received six sessions of group CBT over a 6-week period, while the control group ( n = 11) were placed on a waiting list for 6 weeks and then invited to enter treatment. Children in the CBT group showed statistically significant, but clinically modest improvements following the intervention, with decreases in overall severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Significant improvements were also found in overall behavioural difficulties and emotional symptoms. Children in the waiting list control group did not show any improvements over the same period. However, follow-up data, which were only available for a small subset of eight children, suggest that gains in the CBT group were not maintained at 2-month follow-up.
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“Group CBT appeared to result in a significant decrease in overall PTSD symptoms severity and intrusive PTSD symptoms.”
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“Unfortunately, these improvements were not maintained at 2-month follow-up [63].”
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“Three studies (16.7%) examined CBT in UM [63–65].”
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“UM also appeared to improve with regards to behavior and emotional difficulties [63].”
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“In addition, only seven studies (38.9%) included follow-up assessments in their study designs limiting the evidence regarding long-term benefits of the interventions [60, 61, 63, 67, 68, 73, 78].”
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“Additionally, excluding UM who do not speak the language of the host country, also prevents a great number of UM from receiving support [63, 69, 70, 73, 75].”
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- Authors
- Ehntholt, K. A., Smith, P. A., & Yule, W.
- Affiliations
- Maudsley Hospital (GB)
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Venue
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-04
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 235-250
- ISSN
- 1359-1045 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7021
- OpenAlex
- W2070171994
- Cited by
- 298
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 76 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 6.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Therapy and Development
- Keywords
- cognitive behavioral therapy, group intervention, refugee children, asylum seekers, war trauma, posttraumatic stress symptoms, school-based intervention, high school students, emotional symptoms, behavioral problems, maintenance therapy, waitlist control
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