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Claudia Catani

Claudia Catani

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Overview

Claudia Catani is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on clinical psychology, with significant contributions to the study of migration, health, and trauma. The scientist's work also covers related fields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, general health professions, and epidemiology. Their main research topics include migration, health and trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder research, child abuse and trauma, family support in illness, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, and resilience and mental health.

Some of Claudia Catani's recent publications include:

  • School-based mental health screenings with Ukrainian adolescent refugees in Germany: Results from a pilot study (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Efficacy and moderators of efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapies with a trauma focus in children and adolescents: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised trials (2023), published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • The efficacy of Narrative Exposure Therapy for Children (KIDNET) as a treatment for traumatized young refugees versus treatment as usual: study protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial (YOURTREAT) (2020), published in Trials
  • Low access and inadequate treatment in mental health care for asylum seekers and refugees in Germany-A prospective follow-up study over 12 months and a nationwide cross-sectional study (2024), published in Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being
  • Sex differences in PTSD risk: evidence from post-conflict populations challenges the general assumption of increased vulnerability in females (2021), published in European journal of psychotraumatology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Claudia Catani include:

  • Frank Neuner
  • Jasmin Wittmann
  • Sarah Wilker
  • Telja Schmidt
  • Sina Neldner

The scientist's publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Trials
  • European journal of psychotraumatology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being

Claudia Catani has authored a book published by Hogrefe Verlag titled Narrative Expositionstherapie (NET) (2021).

Best Publications

  • Family violence, war, and natural disasters: A study of the effect of extreme stress on children's mental health in Sri Lanka

    Claudia Catani;Nadja Jacob;Elisabeth Schauer;Mahendran Kohila

  • Treating children traumatized by war and Tsunami: A comparison between exposure therapy and meditation-relaxation in North-East Sri Lanka

    Claudia Catani;Mahendran Kohiladevy;Martina Ruf;Elisabeth Schauer

  • Narrative exposure therapy for 7- to 16-year-olds: A randomized controlled trial with traumatized refugee children

    Martina Ruf;Maggie Schauer;Frank Neuner;Claudia Catani

  • Khat use as risk factor for psychotic disorders: A cross-sectional and case-control study in Somalia

    Michael Odenwald;Frank Neuner;Margarete Schauer;Thomas Elbert

  • Post-tsunami stress: a study of posttraumatic stress disorder in children living in three severely affected regions in Sri Lanka

    Frank Neuner;Elisabeth Schauer;Claudia Catani;Martina Ruf

  • The validity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) as screening instrument with Kurdish and Arab displaced populations living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

    Hawkar Ibrahim;Hawkar Ibrahim;Verena Ertl;Claudia Catani;Azad Ali Ismail;Azad Ali Ismail

  • Beyond Individual War Trauma: Domestic Violence against Children in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

    Claudia Catani;Elisabeth Schauer;Frank Neuner

  • Does war contribute to family violence against children? Findings from a two-generational multi-informant study in Northern Uganda.

    Regina Saile;Verena Ertl;Frank Neuner;Claudia Catani

  • Substantial reduction of naïve and regulatory T cells following traumatic stress.

    Annette Sommershof;Hannah Aichinger;Harald Engler;Hannah Adenauer

  • War trauma, child labor, and family violence: life adversities and PTSD in a sample of school children in Kabul.

    Claudia Catani;Elisabeth Schauer;Thomas Elbert;Inge Missmahl

  • Treatment of traumatized victims of war and torture: a randomized controlled comparison of narrative exposure therapy and stress inoculation training.

    Dorothea Hensel-Dittmann;Maggie Schauer;Martina Ruf;Claudia Catani

  • Treating PTSD in refugees and asylum seekers within the general health care system. A randomized controlled multicenter study

    Håkon Stenmark;Claudia Catani;Frank Neuner;Thomas Elbert

  • Narrative exposure therapy for the treatment of traumatized children and adolescents (KidNET): from neurocognitive theory to field intervention.

    Frank Neuner;Claudia Catani;Martina Ruf;Elisabeth Schauer

  • Prevalence and predictors of partner violence against women in the aftermath of war: a survey among couples in northern Uganda.

    Regina Saile;Frank Neuner;Verena Ertl;Claudia Catani

  • Narrative exposure therapy for PTSD increases top-down processing of aversive stimuli - evidence from a randomized controlled treatment trial

    Hannah Adenauer;Claudia Catani;Hannah Gola;Julian Keil

  • Tsunami, War, and Cumulative Risk in the Lives of Sri Lankan Schoolchildren

    Claudia Catani;Abigail H. Gewirtz;Elizabeth Wieling;Elizabeth Schauer

  • Elevated response of human amygdala to neutral stimuli in mild post traumatic stress disorder: neural correlates of generalized emotional response.

    M. Brunetti;G. Sepede;G. Mingoia;Claudia Catani

  • Early Processing of Threat Cues in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder—Evidence for a Cortical Vigilance-Avoidance Reaction

    Hannah Adenauer;Steivan Pinösch;Claudia Catani;Hannah Gola

  • Is freezing an adaptive reaction to threat? Evidence from heart rate reactivity to emotional pictures in victims of war and torture.

    Hannah Adenauer;Claudia Catani;Julian Keil;Hannah Aichinger

  • Trauma and perceived social rejection among Yazidi women and girls who survived enslavement and genocide.

    Hawkar Ibrahim;Hawkar Ibrahim;Verena Ertl;Claudia Catani;Azad Ali Ismail

  • War at Home - a Review of the Relationship between War Trauma and Family Violence

    Claudia Catani

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Neuner
Frank Neuner Bielefeld University
Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Maggie Schauer
Maggie Schauer University of Konstanz
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa University of Ulm
Ulrike Ehlert
Ulrike Ehlert University of Zurich
Marion S. Forgatch
Marion S. Forgatch University of Oregon
Lutz Goldbeck
Lutz Goldbeck University of Ulm
Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm
Rita Rosner
Rita Rosner Catholic University of America
Julian D. Ford
Julian D. Ford University of Connecticut

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