Verena Semmlinger

• Master of Science
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich

Background Although evidence-based interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly effective, on average about 20% of patients drop out of treatment. Despite considerable research investigating PTSD treatment dropout in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), findings in naturalistic settings remain sparse. Objective Therefore, the...

Background Although highly efficacious psychological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, there is evidence that first-line psychological treatment approaches leave a substantial subgroup of patients still suffering from clinically relevant PTSD symptoms posttreatment. Aims We aimed to meta-analytically establish the prevalen...

Refugees and asylum seekers are exposed to multiple burdensome experiences and suffer from ongoing post‐migration stressors that are known to affect the physical and mental health. In psychological treatment offered to refugees and asylum seekers dropout is an important challenge. The current practice‐oriented review aims to provide for the first t...

Background: Refugees and asylum seekers often suffer from migration stressors and related psychopathology. However, providing this population with psychological treatment has a number of barriers (e.g., culture and language differences), which are widely thought to hinder the success and continuation of treatment. Objective: The current systemat...

This guideline aims to inform and sensitize clinical researchers and therapists about dropout in general as well as specifically in the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. We first describe the challenging situation, refugees resettled in high-income countries are facing and give a brief overview of the current evidence on the effectiveness o...