Table 3 Highlights: multi-modal co-therapy for unaccompanied minors

● Commitment and reliability of care providers despite missed appointments helps build trust

● Care providers address unaccompanied minor’s needs hierarchically (e.g. housing first)

● An interpreter in native language is central for translation and cultural mediation

● Supporting the relationship with the family is experienced as helpful (e.g. through phone calls)

● Pharmacological treatment, and addressing social factors are perceived as helpful

● Therapy focuses on trauma once primary needs have been addressed. The process may take months

● Trauma narration is delayed, prudent, non-forced, and fragmented. If guided carefully, trauma narration is perceived as “freeing” by unaccompanied minors