Healing through Stories: Narrative Exposure Therapy (KIDNET)
摘要
This chapter aims to provide students and practitioners in emergency and low-resource settings with a scientific and evidence-based intervention of the NET (KIDNET) program as a low-threshold intervention, using a case studies of applying the approach with South Sudanese adolescents in Sudanese refugee camp, it also examines the effectiveness of NET (KDNET) in reducing PTSD symptoms and improving daily functioning, and finally, highlighting the therapists’ innovations and the lessons learned. Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a trauma-focused, short-term therapy that was developed for traumatized individuals exposed to trauma and adversity, such as conflict, persecution, or displacement. KIDNET is the child-focused adaption of the therapy, enhancing child resilience through processing of traumatic experiences in children and young adults this occur through the rope stones and flowers symbolizing a chronological life narrative whereby stones represent distress associated with trauma and flowers resilience and good memories. This chapter also evaluates the efficacy of NET (KIDNET) in alleviating PTSD symptoms and enhancing daily functioning. Lastly, it emphasizes the clinicians’ innovations and the lessons they have acquired. The implementation of the NET program underscores the need for culturally sensitive, trauma-focused interventions like NET to improve mental health outcomes for the adolescent refugee populations. NET may be an effective short-term therapy for adolescents affected by war and conflict trauma, especially in poor resource settings. Tailored interventions addressing socio-economic status and mental health challenges can aid short- and medium-term PTSD recovery.