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Frank Neuner is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has a research focus predominantly in the field of Psychology, with 121 publications, and Social Sciences, with 34 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, and Health.

Their research addresses key topics such as Migration, Health and Trauma; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research; Child Abuse and Trauma; Health and Conflict Studies; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Mental Health Treatment and Access; and Racial and Ethnic Identity Research.

Neuner has contributed to notable recent papers including:

  • "Mental health service utilization and perceived barriers to treatment among adult refugees in Germany" (2021), published in European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • "Effectiveness of Psychosocial Interventions Targeting Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Symptoms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Association of War-Related and Gender-Based Violence With Mental Health States of Yazidi Women" (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Physical and social trauma: Towards an integrative transdiagnostic perspective on psychological trauma that involves threats to status and belonging" (2022), published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Varying Cognitive Scars - Differential Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and Facial Emotion Processing" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hawkar Ibrahim
  • Claudia Catani
  • Benjamin Iffland
  • Sarah Wilker
  • Lars Dumke

Some of the primary publication venues for Neuner's research are:

  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • BMC Psychiatry

Neuner has also contributed to academic books published by Hogrefe Publishing eBooks and Hogrefe Verlag, including:

  • Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) For Survivors of Traumatic Stress (2025)
  • Narrative Expositionstherapie (NET) (2021)

Best Publications

  • A comparison of narrative exposure therapy, supportive counseling, and psychoeducation for treating posttraumatic stress disorder in an african refugee settlement.

    Frank Neuner;Margarete Schauer;Christine Klaschik;Unni Karunakara

  • Psychological trauma and evidence for enhanced vulnerability for posttraumatic stress disorder through previous trauma among West Nile refugees

    Frank Neuner;Maggie Schauer;Unni Karunakara;Christine Klaschik

  • 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

  • Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder by trained lay counselors in an African refugee settlement: a randomized controlled trial.

    Frank Neuner;Patience Lamaro Onyut;Verena Ertl;Michael Odenwald

  • 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

  • CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR COMPLEX PTSD IN ADULTS.

    Ad De Jongh;Ad De Jongh;Patricia A. Resick;Lori A. Zoellner;Agnes van Minnen

  • Community-implemented trauma therapy for former child soldiers in Northern Uganda: a randomized controlled trial.

    Verena Ertl;Annett Pfeiffer;Elisabeth Schauer;Thomas Elbert

  • 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

  • Validation of a Mental Health Assessment in an African Conflict Population

    Verena Ertl;Anett Pfeiffer;Regina Saile;Elisabeth Schauer

  • 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

  • Narrative Exposure Therapy as a treatment for child war survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder: two case reports and a pilot study in an African refugee settlement.

    Lamaro Patience Onyut;Lamaro Patience Onyut;Frank Neuner;Elisabeth Schauer;Verena Ertl

  • Traumatic events and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder amongst Sudanese nationals, refugees and Ugandans in the West Nile

    Unni Krishnan Karunakara;Frank Neuner;Margarete Schauer;Kavita Singh

  • Can asylum-seekers with posttraumatic stress disorder be successfully treated? A randomized controlled pilot study.

    Frank Neuner;Silke Kurreck;Martina Ruf;Michael Odenwald

  • 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

  • Narrative exposure therapy for political imprisonment-related chronic posttraumatic stress disorder and depression.

    Dana Bichescu;Frank Neuner;Maggie Schauer;Thomas Elbert

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

    Claudia Catani;Elisabeth Schauer;Frank Neuner

  • A deletion variant of the alpha2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans.

    Dominique J. F. de Quervain;Iris-Tatjana Kolassa;Verena Ertl;Lamaro Patience Onyut;Lamaro Patience Onyut

  • 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

  • Trauma, poverty and mental health among Somali and Rwandese refugees living in an African refugee settlement – an epidemiological study

    Lamaro Patience Onyut;Lamaro Patience Onyut;Frank Neuner;Verena Ertl;Elisabeth Schauer

  • Narrative Exposure Therapy: A Short-Term Intervention For Traumatic Stress Disorders after War, Terror, or Torture

    Margarete Schauer;Frank Neuner;Thomas Elbert

  • Narrative exposure therapy : a short-term intervention for traumatic stress disorders

    Frank Neuner;Thomas Elbert;Maggie Schauer

  • Narrative exposure therapy: A short-term treatment for traumatic stress disorders, 2nd rev. and expanded ed.

    Maggie Schauer;Frank Neuner;Thomas Elbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Claudia Catani
Claudia Catani Bielefeld University
Maggie Schauer
Maggie Schauer University of Konstanz
Brigitte Rockstroh
Brigitte Rockstroh University of Konstanz
Rita Rosner
Rita Rosner Catholic University of America
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa University of Ulm
Tobias Hecker
Tobias Hecker Bielefeld University
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier University of Freiburg
Martin Driessen
Martin Driessen Bielefeld University
Franz Petermann
Franz Petermann University of Bremen

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