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Low-Threshold and Innovative Interventions

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In addition to the conventional psychotherapeutic methods, further alternatives have been developed in the international context over the last decades to help traumatised victims. In this chapter, these interventions are summarised as low-threshold procedures, which are defined in such a way that those seeking help usually seek them themselves outside the established health care system (although there are also overlaps with more recent approaches within the health care system). This means that the use of an intervention is not dependent on the presence of a diagnosis. Those affected may also have so-called sub-syndromal conditions (i.e. not all the symptoms necessary for a diagnosis are fully present), or it may be a matter of individual prevention including better processing of the experience.

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Maercker, A. (2022). Low-Threshold and Innovative Interventions. In: Maercker, A. (eds) Trauma Sequelae. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64057-9_15

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