Feasibility of Empowerment Group Therapy on Ukrainian Adult Outpatients

Empowerment is a manualized, culturally sensitive treatment program. The treatment is based on a modular principle that transdiagnostically targets major symptom domains (e.g. stress, depression, anxiety), and can be flexibly adapted to individual mental health conditions of clients who participate in this program. The intervention is designed as a psychological group intervention for resource-limited settings and scalable for different formats (i.e. in-person, online, hybrid) to be feasible under the unstable conditions of war (e.g. missile attacks, power outrages). Key therapeutic elements are psychoeducation, emotion regulation strategies, problem solving and building coping skills. The activation of individual and culture-specific resources as well as building self-help skills are at focus of the treatment.