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Acceptance and Mindfulness Techniques as Applied to Refugee and Ethnic Minority Populations with PTSD: Examples from "Culturally Adapted CBT"
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Hinton, Devon E.; Pich, Vuth; Hofmann, Stefan G.; Otto, Michael W. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2013
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…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Metacognition
Symptom Presentation and Symptom Meaning among Traumatized Cambodian Refugees: Relevance to a Somatically Focused Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
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Hinton, Devon E.; Otto, Michael W. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
Among psychologically distressed Cambodian refugees, somatic complaints are particularly prominent. Cambodians interpret anxiety-related somatic sensations in terms of "Wind" ("khyal"), an ethnophysiology that gives rise to multiple catastrophic interpretations; and they have prominent trauma-memory associations to anxiety-related somatic…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behavior Modification, Schemata (Cognition)
Orthostatically Induced Panic Attacks among Cambodian Refugees: Flashbacks, Catastrophic Cognitions, and Associated Psychopathology
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Hinton, Devon E.; Pollack, Mark H.; Pich, Vuth; Fama, Jeanne M.; Barlow, David H. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2005
Consecutive Cambodian refugees (N = 100) attending a psychiatric clinic were assessed for the presence and severity of current orthostatic panic (OP), which is defined as panic triggered by standing up. The patients with current OP (n = 36) had significantly greater psychopathology than patients without current OP. During OP, trauma associations…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Psychopathology, Patients, Severity (of Disability)
Modifying Exposure-Based CBT for Cambodian Refugees with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Otto, Michael W.; Hinton, Devon E. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
Cambodian refugees represent a severely traumatized population living in the United States. In this paper, we describe the modification of a cognitive-behavior therapy program to facilitate delivery of an exposure-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder while addressing some of the challenges brought by differences in language and…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behavior Modification, Patients