Effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy Among Refugee Children and Adolescents

How to Help War-affected Children and Adolescents: the Role of Memory Functions in Therapeutic Intervention

This study aims to understand how war trauma affects children's and adolescents' memory functions and mental health, and whether Narrative Exposure Therapy is effective in enhancing optimal memory functions and alleviating mental health problems. The study analyzes the mental health and cognitive and emotional healing mechanisms of therapeutic intervention among war-affected children and adolescents.

Inclusion Criteria:

• 9-17 years old
• has spent some part of her/his life living in a country where organized violence was taking place, or at a refugee camp
• suffers from significant stress symptoms thought be trauma-related

Exclusion Criteria:

• acute psychosis
• intellectual disability