Table 2 Themes and subthemes

A safe space for unaccompanied minors

a. A secure therapeutic framework

b. The interpreter prevents misunderstandings and is a reassuring link with the native country

c. A support to caseworker-youth relationship

Helpful interventions during MUCTUM therapy

a. Behavioral guidance promotes feelings of safety, self-confidence, and self-care practices

b. Care providers facilitate links with the other institutions

c. The work on family issues

d. Cultural focus enables traditional care implementation

e. Help with medications

Narrating one’s story can “set us free” if carefully guided by care providers

a. Unaccompanied minors valued a delayed, progressive, and fractionated narration

b. Care providers provide active, participative and empathetic listening to narration

c. Sharing one’s story is “painful” but “sets us free”