Social Support for Traumatized Individuals

The ESRA psychosocial centre has been working as an innovative and professional counselling and treatment centre since 1994 and has developed into a trauma competence centre over many years of working with severely traumatised people. ESRA is designed as a model for interdisciplinary care for the Jewish population, all those affected by Nazi persecution, their descendants and relatives, Jewish migrants and those affected by trauma (acute and chronically traumatised). Over the years, there has been an increasing specialisation in the treatment of traumatised people, whereby traumatisation can be caused by different factors. ESRA offers psychosocial support in the medical, social work, psychological, nursing and psychotherapeutic fields. People who seek help from ESRA can make use of both the outpatient and social counselling services and find all services under one roof. The aim of the research project is to take a closer look at the various forms of addiction that are diagnosed before/during/after treatment or supervision, but also when treatment is discontinued. The aim is to identify what support in the form of applied psychotraumatology should look like so that the stress patterns are less severe or even, ideally, to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress disorder.