Table 2.
IAT treatment process: applying cross-cutting treatment strategies to ADAPT-specific challenges
| Assessment and identity problem areas in relation to the ADAPT-specific domains | Explore, identity and address underlying stress and reactions associated with the antecedents/precipitants/perpetuating factors | Apply cross-cutting treatment strategies to build capacity for managing core challenges and distress across multiple adaptive systems | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The ADAPT pillars | Precipitants | Perpetuating factors | Adaptive Stress Reactions (Tay et al., 2019a) | Comorbid disorders | Cross-cutting treatment strategies |
| Safety and security | Persecution, torture, abuse, intimate partner violence | Insecure residency, conditions of protracted displacement, threats of communal violence | Fear, anxiety, panic, nightmares, flashbacks, recurring thoughts, arousal | PTSD, depressive disorder, anxiety disorders | Psychoeducation, stress management, guided narrative, problem-solving, emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal |
| Attachments | Traumatic losses, separation and displacement from homeland | Continuing separation from family, ongoing displacement | Sadness, isolation, suicidal ideation, preoccupations with deceased | Complicated bereavement, prolonged grief disorder, separation anxiety | Psychoeducation, stress management, guided narrative, problem solving, emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal |
| Justice | Past and current human rights violations | No legal redress or mechanism to address past and current violations | Anger, resentment, sense of injustice, unfairness, moral injury | Intermittent explosive disorder, explosive anger | Psychoeducation, stress management, guided narrative, problem solving, emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal |
| Role and identity disruptions | Post-migration stressors and deprivations | Transition and adjusting to new role and identity | Frustration, confusion, sadness, difficulties adjusting to life | Depression, adjustment disorder | Psychoeducation, stress management, guided narrative, problem solving, emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal |
| Existential meaning | Mass killing, genocide, ethnic cleansing | Loneliness, isolation, limited access to spiritual, religious activities that confer meaning | Feelings of emptiness, sadness, isolation, suicidal ideation | Depression, suicidality, dysthymia | Psychoeducation, stress management, guided narrative, problem solving, emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal, meaning-making |