Mental health is fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living and enjoy life. (WHO, 2018)
In support of UN:s Agenda 2030 goal of universal access to quality mental health care, KriTra offers international training and start-up support for health workers and organisations all over the world.
The human response to psychological trauma is one of the most important public health problems in the world.Traumatic events such as family and social violence, rapes and assaults, disasters, wars, accidents and predatory violence confront people with such horror and threat that it may temporarily or permanently alter their capacity to cope, their biological threat perception, and their concepts of themselves.
Traumatised individuals frequently develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a disorder in which the memory of the traumatic event comes to dominate the victims' consciousness, depleting their lives of meaning and pleasure.
Significant barriers exist to widespread evidence-based treatments for trauma survivors. The stigmatisation of mental illness, a lack of awareness and the need for culture-sensitive, trauma-informed training are concerns that need to be addressed to effectively increase the dissemination of evidence-based treatment of PTSD. Generally and globally, according to WHO, only one out of four individuals with mental disorders in need of treatment receives it.
During recent decades, however, several highly effective CBT-based PTSD treatments have emerged, of which Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD (PE) currently has the largest body of supportive evidence. PE has been found effective across a wide range of cultures and trauma populations. Symptom reduction usually ranges between 50 to 90 percent, resulting in the majority of treated patients no longer meeting the diagnosis criteria for PTSD. The training of PE providers does not require participants’ prior knowledge or formal training, meaning that, when supervised by an expert, lay providers will deliver effective treatment. Also, little to no material is needed and the method will work via phone or FaceTime/Skype, all of which makes PE ideal for dissemination in low income settings.
The human response to psychological trauma is one of the most important public health problems in the world.Traumatic events such as family and social violence, rapes and assaults, disasters, wars, accidents and predatory violence confront people with such horror and threat that it may temporarily or permanently alter their capacity to cope, their biological threat perception, and their concepts of themselves.
Traumatised individuals frequently develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a disorder in which the memory of the traumatic event comes to dominate the victims' consciousness, depleting their lives of meaning and pleasure.
Significant barriers exist to widespread evidence-based treatments for trauma survivors. The stigmatisation of mental illness, a lack of awareness and the need for culture-sensitive, trauma-informed training are concerns that need to be addressed to effectively increase the dissemination of evidence-based treatment of PTSD. Generally and globally, according to WHO, only one out of four individuals with mental disorders in need of treatment receives it.
During recent decades, however, several highly effective CBT-based PTSD treatments have emerged, of which Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD (PE) currently has the largest body of supportive evidence. PE has been found effective across a wide range of cultures and trauma populations. Symptom reduction usually ranges between 50 to 90 percent, resulting in the majority of treated patients no longer meeting the diagnosis criteria for PTSD. The training of PE providers does not require participants’ prior knowledge or formal training, meaning that, when supervised by an expert, lay providers will deliver effective treatment. Also, little to no material is needed and the method will work via phone or FaceTime/Skype, all of which makes PE ideal for dissemination in low income settings.
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