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[A complex crisis intervention for a 16-year-old pregnant girl after unaccompanied emigration from Eritrea]

Andrea Dixius1, Eva Möhler1

  • 11 SHG-Kliniken Sonnenberg, Kleinblittersdorf, Deutschland.

Zeitschrift Fur Kinder- Und Jugendpsychiatrie Und Psychotherapie
|September 20, 2016
PubMed

Unaccompanied refugee minors are frequently confronted with multiple, potentially traumatizing events; girls tend to show most profound traumatizations. A 16-year-old female refugee minor was admitted to a child psychiatric ward over the weekend for acute suicidal behavior. The girl had fled unaccompanied from Eritrea and was living in a shelter home for adolescents. Pregnancy (23 weeks p. c.) had been diagnosed the previous day, stemming from several rapes that had occurred on her journey through Sudan and Nigeria. The girl had repressed all signs of the pregnancy from her consciousness. However, when it became medically undeniably apparent, she tried to end her life by jumping out of a window. The shelter home staff requested a psychiatric indication for termination of the pregnancy. Implications of medical indications for psychiatric reasons at a pregnancy state of 23 weeks as well as ethical aspects and considerations with regard to posttraumatic symptomatology are discussed in the following case report.

Keywords:
female unaccompanied refugee minorindication for termination of pregnancyposttraumatic stress disorderpregnancytraumatization

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