• emotional problems
• stress symptoms
• externalizing problems

Implementation of the PASST group training to promote emotion regulation and resilience.

Experiences such as direct exposure to war represent high psychological stress, and such traumatic experiences are associated with a diminished ability for emotion regulation. Problems in emotion regulation in turn are associated with lower resilience in children and adolescents as well as numerous child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. PASST aims to improve emotion regulation and resilience in a playful and low-threshold way in order to prevent the development of mental disorders and to promote healthy psychosocial development in children.

So far, there is a large gap of early interventions for children who have been exposed to very stressful and traumatic experiences. While children with clinical symptoms can seek treatment from child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychotherapists, there are hardly any suitable intervention offers for children with subclinical symptoms resulting from stressful experiences. PASST is a low-threshold training program for all children who have been exposed to traumatic war experiences, regardless of any clinically significant abnormalities or psychiatric diagnoses.