Evaluation of Interpreter Supported Trauma Psychotherapy for Asylum S...

It is quite a challenge to evaluate interpreter supported trauma psychotherapy for asylum seekers because of the external dynamic that influences so much: whether or not they will succeed to gain asylum. This is an existential issue and very strong. The power of psychotherapy is in comparison weak, so we need to ask the question whether psychotherapy is doing good in this field. Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and “Veränderungsfragebogen desErlebens und Verhaltens“ (Change questionnaire of experience and behaviour, VEV-R) is used at the beginning, every half year and at the end of individual and group psychotherapy. The results for 2017 will be presented in a paper. It will need some discussion about how to improve the evaluation, so it is more appropriate. In our contribution, we will also characterize some aspects of the influential outside dynamic and present practical examples of the psychotherapy work in Aspis.