Professor Katharina Luttenberger, psychotherapist and climbing coach, is back to talk to us about how bouldering psychosocial support  sessions are improving the wellbeing of refugee youth. 

In 2022 Katharina collaborated with the incredible organisation Climb Aid, to research how their YouClimb program is impacting youth in the Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon. She speaks to us about her experience, and the encouraging results of their research. 

We also chat to Katharina about how she is able to get outside to climb with her family, and the exciting research projects she will be taking on next. 

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www.bouldering-psychotherapy.com ( research homepage)

www.climbaid.org (organisation Katharina worked with in Lebanon)

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Papers

A psychosocial bouldering intervention improves the well-being of young refugees and adolescents from the host community in Lebanon: results from a pragmatic controlled trial | Conflict and Health | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

Bouldering psychotherapy is more effective in the treatment of depression than physical exercise alone: results of a multicentre randomised controlled intervention study | BMC Psychiatry | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

Bouldering psychotherapy is not inferior to cognitive behavioural therapy in the group treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial - Luttenberger - 2022 - British Journal of Clinical Psychology - Wiley Online Library

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