Conveners
Talk Session 7: Clinical Psychology
- Mareike Ernst ()
Presentation Materials
In Austria, Jakob Levy Moreno wrote 1924 “Das Stegreiftheater” (The Theatre of Spontaneity). In 1931, in the U.S., he coined the term group psychotherapy and had a controlled trial on psychodrama in 1951, earlier than Eysenck. The last meta-analysis found a medium effect size of d=.501 (.36, .64) for increasing mental health. Systematic reviews conclude that psychodrama helps patients in many...
Cross-cultural research has acknowledged culturally dependent ways of understanding, interpreting and processing psychological trauma. Discourses about individual responses to traumatic events in low-income countries like crisis-ridden Sierra Leone ought to consider a person’s psychosocial background within a sociocultural, historical and political context.
As a sub-study of a research...
The theory of rite of passage has long been used in clinical and developmental psychology as an explanatory notion for crises, trauma-related conditions, and addictions. A liminal hotspot (unlike the liminoid), is the state of being stuck in the liminal phase of the transition, leading to emotional overheat and burnout (Greco & Stenner, 2017). A liminal hotspot is an impasse in the order of...
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD), a condition recently included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is associated with substance use disorder (SUD) and behavioural addictions. With cPTSD, the person is exposed to prolonged traumatization, starting usually early in their life and/or occurring in an interpersonal context from where escape impossible (e.g.,...
