Providing manualized individual trauma-focused CBT to unaccompanied refugee minors with uncertain residence status: A pilot study

Unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) seeking asylum show high rates of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. In addition, they experience post-migration stresss like an uncertain residence status. Therefore, psychotherapeutic interventions for URMs are urgently needed but have scarcely been investigated up to now.