About this trial
Research project entitled "The experience of relational trauma as an important etiological factor of neurotic and/or personality disorders. The 4FM Acceptance training as a new form of therapy for these disorders" assumes the following goals:
1. validation of the Polish version of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ); 2. assessment of prevalence of relational trauma among adult psychiatric patients hospitalized at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology; 3. development a new therapeutic intervention - 4FM Acceptance training - based on the methodology of the Existential Analysis; 4. assessment of the impact of the 4FM Acceptance training among patients with cPTSD.
The original therapeutic intervention - 4FM Acceptance training - will be developed based on the methodological assumptions of the 4 Fundamental Motivations (4FM) in the Existential Analysis methodology, developed by Alfried Längle, student of Viktor Frankl, a representative of the Existential Psychology, together with other important representatives, i.e. Rollo May, Irvin Yalom and in Poland prof. Antoni Kępiński.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Signed informed consent provide.
Stable mental state allowing for reliable completion of the questionnaires.
Native Polish language.
Meeting the cPTSD diagnosis based on ITQ - International Trauma Questionnaire), self-report questionnaire, Cloitre et al. (2021), Polish version validated within the project.
Disqualifiers
No consent to participate in the research.
Coexisting addiction to alcohol or psychoactive substances, documented intellectual disability, dementia or organic changes of the central nervous system.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- 4FM Acceptance Training