Trau­ma reha­bil­i­ta­tion for refugees

Trau­ma reha­bil­i­ta­tion for refugees in tem­po­rary accom­mo­da­tion in Baden-Württemberg

Expe­ri­ence in recent years con­firms a high num­ber of refugees who have expe­ri­enced mas­sive stress and trauma­ti­za­tion before, dur­ing and after their flight and con­se­quent­ly suf­fer from health prob­lems and impaired func­tion­ing in every­day life. This places a con­sid­er­able bur­den on the care and inte­gra­tion of refugees and requires not only effi­cient trau­ma reha­bil­i­ta­tion after flight and vio­lence for refugees liv­ing in BaWü, but also pre­ven­tive mea­sures to pre­vent the devel­op­ment of impair­ing men­tal dis­or­ders in refugees.

Although there are test­ed, demon­stra­bly effi­cient treat­ment and pre­ven­tion mea­sures to alle­vi­ate suf­fer­ing and improve the func­tion­al­i­ty of those affect­ed, these are not suf­fi­cient­ly uti­lized due to var­i­ous (lin­guis­tic, cul­tur­al and orga­ni­za­tion­al) barriers.

Early/timely iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of men­tal­ly stressed (trau­ma­tized) refugees and their accompanying/counselling sup­port should reduce or pre­vent chron­ic trau­ma-relat­ed dis­or­ders asso­ci­at­ed with suf­fer­ing, imped­i­ments to inte­gra­tion, over­bur­den­ing in accom­mo­da­tion (MFS) and high costs.

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Two-year project of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kon­stanz in coop­er­a­tion with fka fre­un­deskreis asyl karl­sruhe e.V. and vivo inter­na­tion­al e.V.

Fund­ed by the Min­istry of Social Affairs, Health and Inte­gra­tion, in coop­er­a­tion with the Min­istry of Jus­tice and Migra­tion Baden-Württemberg

Project peri­od: Octo­ber 2023 to the end of Sep­tem­ber 2025