4FM Acceptance Training as the New Form of cPTSD-focused Treatment Based on Existential Analysis

Research project entitled "The experience of relational trauma as an important etiological factor of neurotic and/or personality disorders. The 4FM Acceptance training as a new form of therapy for these disorders" assumes the following goals:validation of the Polish version of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ);assessment of prevalence of relational trauma among adult psychiatric patients hospitalized at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology;development a new therapeutic intervention - 4FM Acceptance training - based on the methodology of the Existential Analysis;assessment of the impact of the 4FM Acceptance training among patients with cPTSD.The original therapeutic intervention - 4FM Acceptance training - will be developed based on the methodological assumptions of the 4 Fundamental Motivations (4FM) in the Existential Analysis methodology, developed by Alfried Längle, student of Viktor Frankl, a representative of the Existential Psychology, together with other important representatives, i.e. Rollo May, Irvin Yalom and in Poland prof. Antoni Kępiński.

Inclusion Criteria:Signed informed consent provide.Stable mental state allowing for reliable completion of the questionnaires.Native Polish language.Meeting the cPTSD diagnosis based on ITQ - International Trauma Questionnaire), self-report questionnaire, Cloitre et al. (2021), Polish version validated within the project.Exclusion Criteria:No consent to participate in the research.Coexisting addiction to alcohol or psychoactive substances, documented intellectual disability, dementia or organic changes of the central nervous system.