Most are given therapy on an individual basis, but family and group therapy are also offered. Patients are taken in after referral from general practitioners and occasionally from other out-patient clinics. The clinic admits refugees with severe psychosocial symptoms, focusing mainly on those who are most severely traumatized by imprisonment and torture. The symptoms are often complex. Post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depressions, and somatization and dissociative disorders are the most common diagnoses.
Some patients exhibit symptoms of severe aggression.
Psychosomatic disorders are seen, often combined with other psychosocial problems and symptoms. After admission to the clinic, the patients are evaluated for a period of three to six sessions. In some cases the clinic employs external specialists, such as psychologists and physiotherapists, for psychomotoric and physiotherapeutic evaluation. In addition to these types of therapy, psychotherapy is offered to children, and collaboration takes place with schools and kindergartens in order to address the needs of traumatized refugee children. Training Centre staff teach clinically related subjects all over the country, and they provide clinical supervision for health professionals.