Acceptance and Mindfulness Techniques as Applied to Refugee and Ethnic Minority Populations with PTSD: Examples from "Culturally Adapted CBT"

Autor/inn/en	Hinton, Devon E.; Pich, Vuth; Hofmann, Stefan G.; Otto, Michael W.
Titel	Acceptance and Mindfulness Techniques as Applied to Refugee and Ethnic Minority Populations with PTSD: Examples from "Culturally Adapted CBT"
Quelle	In: Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20 (2013) 1, S.33-46 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1077-7229
DOI	10.1016/j.cbpra.2011.09.001
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Refugees; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Metacognition; Cultural Awareness; Ethnic Groups; Minority Groups; Networks; Models; Classification; Therapy; Self Control; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Emotional Disturbances; Cognitive Restructuring; Hispanic Americans; Asian Americans; Case Studies; Patients; Cambodians; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Flüchtling; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Ethnie; Ethnische Minderheit; Analogiemodell; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Therapie; Selbstbeherrschung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Gefühlsstörung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Patient; Kambodschanisch; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	In this article we illustrate how we utilize acceptance and mindfulness techniques in our treatment (Culturally Adapted CBT, or CA-CBT) for traumatized refugees and ethnic minority populations. We present a Nodal Network Model (NNM) of Affect to explain the treatment's emphasis on body-centered mindfulness techniques and its focus on psychological flexibility. We explain the definition of mindfulness that guides our treatment, and we outline a typology of mindfulness states and show how many of the techniques in our treatment can be analyzed by these categories. We argue that acceptance and mindfulness are therapeutic for refugees and minority populations for several reasons. These include their increasing psychological flexibility, decreasing somatic distress, decreasing rumination, serving as emotion regulation techniques, decreasing the attentional bias to threat, and forming part of a new adaptive processing mode (which in CA-CBT centers on psychological flexibility). We describe the specific ways we teach acceptance and mindfulness with Latino and Southeast Asian refugee populations and present case examples of the treatment of a traumatized Latino and Cambodian patient. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10