Psychotherapy with Immigrants and Refugees from Crisis Zones

Offering appropriate care to refugees requires temporal and structural resources, specific competence in diversity and cross-cultural issues and expertise in the fields of psychosocial and socio-medical assessment and treatment. In our experience, the absence of appropriate structures within such care often leads to a delay in identifying mentally ill or traumatised victims of torture in particular; such a delay has medical, psychological and social consequences for the individuals affected as well as for their families.