Conveners
Talk Session 7: Clinical Psychology
- Mareike Ernst ()
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.,...
