[Psychological Care for a High Risk Group of Refugees - Concept of Care for the Yazidi Women and Children of the Sonderkontingent Baden-Württemberg in Freiburg].

After the genocide of Shingal in August 2014 in Northern Iraq, the humanitarian admissions program Sonderkontingent Baden-Württemberg "Schutzbedürftiger Frauen und Kinder aus dem Nordirak" was implemented. 1100 persons, most of them Yazidis, were hosted by different municipalities in Germany. The target group is a particularly vulnerable group of persons with a high risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder. We present the concept of care in Freiburg for 205 Yazidi women and children in Freiburg. A stepped-care approach was developed for the psychological care to introduce the Yazidi people to the daily life and to the health care system in Germany. An outreach of psychological services and an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary cooperation of all services involved were crucial. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.