Given the significant growth of the migration flow of refugees fleeing from persecution, terrorism and war-torn countries to Europe, there is an urgent need for effective interventions for the treatment of complex trauma and related disorders .
The current study aimed at: 1) assessing and evaluating treatment feasibility of Syrian refugees within an emergency context; 2) EMDR treatment of the acute phase of traumatization of this group of Syrian refugess, with the aim of reducing their post-traumatic symptomatology, as well as installing resources as a protective factor. 3) to measure the efficacy of EMDR treatment with children, survivors of war, deployment, grief, loss of family members and homes; 4) to study the possibility of working with EMDR therapy in an unstable situation, as the one that was going on with this Syrian population, that was living in an orphanage, in a foreign country (Turkey), in the border, a few km away from Aleppo.
