Download or read book Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy written by Monica Luci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book introduces and discusses the underpinning of psychodynamic psychotherapy for torture survivors in a clinical setting and incorporates concepts from analytical psychology and other theoretical bases in order to provide readers with a deeper understanding of this complex trauma. Using the concepts of analytical psychology, relational psychoanalysis, and neuroscience, and relying on the theoretical basis of her book Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), Luci focuses on three key clinical cases and illustrates the therapeutic paths that the therapeutic dyad explore and experiences in order to get out of the patient’s inner prison created or aggravated by the experience of torture. The book discusses the role of the therapist when working with torture survivors, the requirement of a slow and cautious approach when dealing with such trauma, and the importance of a careful and respectful consideration of issues of identity, politics, and culture. Featuring a useful guide, this book will be of great interest to mental health professionals, psychotherapists and students practicing in services that provide assistance to torture and war trauma survivors.
Download or read book At the Side of Torture Survivors written by Sepp Graessner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An outstanding collection that brings an extraordinary international perspective to the growing literature on the treatment of the survivors of torture." -- New England Journal of Medicine
Download or read book Working with Torture and Trauma Survivors written by Paula Raymond-Yacoub and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caring for Victims of Torture written by James M. Jaranson and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the field of torture rehabilitation has grown rapidly. A growing awareness about the practice of torture (more than 100 countries today practice government-sanctioned torture) and its effects on victims is leading to an increasing number of dedicated treatment centers. The health care professionals on the staffs of these centers need the best, most up-to-date information and advice they can get. This book delivers it. Caring for Victims of Torture contains all the collective wisdom of some of the most respected international experts in the treatment of victims of government torture -- all distinguished physicians -- including pioneers in the field of traumatic stress. Contributors discuss the most recent advances in knowledge about government-sanctioned torture and offer practical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims. Organized into six main sections, this annotated volume provides an overview of the history and politics of torture and rehabilitation; guidance in identifying and defining the sequelae of torture; a framework for assessment and treatment; specific treatment interventions; and a discussion of ethical implications. In the final section, physicians working in the field offer firsthand accounts and address how they are trying to balance politics with caregiving. Focusing on the physician's role, this book is chiefly a clinical guide. But for advanced-level students, it serves as a thorough, up-to-date text and reference work. Religious leaders, lawyers, politicians, human rights advocates, and torture victims themselves will find it a valuable resource as well.
Download or read book The Mental Health Consequences of Torture written by Ellen Gerrity and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 the National Institute of Mental Health assembled a working group of international experts to address the mental health consequences of torture and related violence and trauma; report on the status of scientific knowledge; and include research recommendations with implications for treatment, services, and policy development. This book, dedicated to those who experience the horrors of torture and those who work to end it, is based on that report.
Download or read book Torture and Its Consequences written by Metin Basoglu and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1992-11-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic publication in this field which serves as a scholarly yet very practical resource.
Download or read book Broken Spirits written by John P. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims and political refugees does not exist. Broken Spirits aims to bring together the works of the most respected mental health professionals - from the U.S. and abroad - and make available the most current knowledge on complex PTSD, forced migration and cultural sensitivity in diagnosis and treatment.
Download or read book A Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors written by Metin Basoglu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass trauma events, such as natural disasters, war and torture, affect millions of people every year. Currently, there is no mental health care model with the potential to address the psychological needs of survivors in a cost-effective way. This book presents such a model, along with guidance on its implementation, making it invaluable for both policy-makers and mental health professionals. Building on more than twenty years of extensive research with mass trauma survivors, the authors present a model of traumatic stress to aid understanding of mass trauma and how its psychological impact can be overcome with control-focused behavioral treatment. This text offers a critical review of various controversial issues in the field of psychological trauma in light of recent research findings. Including two structured manuals on earthquake trauma, covering treatment delivery and self-help, the book will be of use to survivors themselves as well as care providers.
Download or read book Posttraumatic Growth written by Richard G. Tedeschi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche) The phenomenon of positive personal change following devastating events has been recognized since ancient times, but given little attention by contemporary psychologists and psychiatrists, who have tended to focus on the negative consequences of stress. In recent years, evidence from diverse fields has converged to suggest the reality and pervasive importance of the processes the editors sum up as posttraumatic growth. This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of these processes. The authors address a variety of traumas--among them bereavement, physical disability, terminal illness, combat, rape, and natural disasters--following which experiences of growth have been reported. How can sufferers from posttraumatic stress disorder best be helped? What does "resilience" in the face of high risk mean? Which personality characteristics facilitate growth? To what extent is personality change possible in adulthood? How can concepts like happiness and self-actualization be operationalized? What role do changing belief systems, schemas, or "assumptive worlds" play in positive adaptation? Is "stress innoculation" possible? How do spiritual beliefs become central for many people struck by trauma, and how are posttraumatic growth and recovery from substance abuse or the crises of serious physical illnesses linked? Such questions have concerned not only the recently defined and expanding group of "traumatologists," but also therapists of all sorts, personality and social psychologists, developmental and cognitive researchers, specialists in health psychology and behavioral medicine, and those who study religion and mental health. Overcoming the challenges of life's worst experiences can catalyze new opportunities for individual and social development. Learning about persons who discover or create the perception of positive change in their lives may shed light on the problems of those who continue to suffer. Posttraumatic Growth will stimulate dialogue among personality and social psychologists and clinicians, and influence the theoretical foundations and clinical agendas of investigators and practitioners alike.
Download or read book Recipes for Healing written by Nancy L. Pearson and published by UP-CIDS, University of the Philippines, Center for Integrative and Development Studies. This book was released on 1897 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Spirits written by John P. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims and political refugees does not exist. Broken Spirits aims to bring together the works of the most respected mental health professionals - from the U.S. and abroad - and make available the most current knowledge on complex PTSD, forced migration and cultural sensitivity in diagnosis and treatment.
Download or read book Vicarious Traumatization Among Interpreters who Work with Torture Survivors and Their Therapists written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapists have long been treating victims of different types of violent crimes. However, trauma therapists have been facing a significant rise in demand. Victims of various types of trauma (e.g., violent crimes, accidents, natural disasters, wars, terror and torture) come to psychotherapy in large numbers. This development places new demands on the field. One of these demands is to examine the psychological effects of helping trauma survivors. Different studies have examined this issue as it relates to therapists (e.g., Pearlman & MacIan, 1995; Sexton, 1999; Chrestman, 1999; Kassam-Adams, 1999). However, in many cases, there are other professionals who are involved in the recovery process of the survivors and who may also be affected by their work. This study has chosen to examine the effects of vicarious traumatization (VT) on interpreters who aid in the therapy process of survivors of torture. Fifty-three interpreters from 17 treatment centers for survivors of torture and from two translation agencies answered three questionnaires: a demographic questionnaire, the Trauma and Attachment Belief Scale (TABS) and the Compassion and Satisfaction Belief Scale - R-III (CSF-R-III). VT was measured by the total score on the TABS and the Compassion Fatigue Scale on the CSF-R-III.This study examined whether interpreters show higher levels of VT when compared to the general population. History of past trauma, lack of supervision and lack of therapy were hypothesized to be predictors of higher levels of VT. None of these hypotheses was found to be true. In fact interpreters in this study were found to be, overall, satisfied with their work. However, further analyses found that interpreters with history of trauma and those who received supervision showed significantly higher levels of burnout. The more time interpreters spent with victims of trauma per week, the higher was their level of burnout. More experienced interpreters had a significantly higher level of burnout.
Download or read book Counselling and Therapy with Refugees and Victims of Trauma written by Guus van der Veer and published by . This book was released on 1998-08-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this book was acclaimed as a practical, insightful and humane guide for professionals in mental health, social work and voluntary and government agencies who are concerned with the care of refugees and other victims of political and military violence. These professionals can develop feelings of irritation, disappointment and hopelessness when their work seems not to have the expected result. Successful counselling and therapy require empathy with such victims of traumatic events. But empathy must be based on, and combined with, expertise and knowledge that is both scientific and research-based, and focused on the special needs of these victims. This book is written from the first-hand experience of a world expert in this field, and provides A practical guide to clinical work with adult, child and adolescent victims A conceptual framework which places treatment in the context of the main therapeutic approaches A review of the research evidence that supports these methods of assessment and treatment Many clinical examples and a full consideration of the special problems of communication across cultures and language barriers Recognition of the special problems for professionals and volunteers dealing with these clients This new edition reflects the latest scientific and clinical work and knowledge, and will be essential for mental health professionals as well as for a wider readership of social, legal and administrative professionals who are concerned with the wellbeing of these victims. "A supremely accessible, comprehensive text on the effects of detention, torture, rape, exile, and culture shock, and how to understand and effectively help victims. It is also a vivid insight into traumatization and transgenerational suffering, and into transcultural and transtheoretical therapy. Harrowing yet timely, essential reading for frontline therapists and counsellors." —Colin Feltham, PhD, Sheffield Hallam University
Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Andres Gautier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time or words with which to express it. It discusses the traumatic scenes that are extreme expressions of historic and political conditions.
Download or read book Witnessing Torture written by Alexandra S. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling the rhetorical divide that typically separates survivors’ suffering from human rights workers’ expertise, contributors engage with the personal, professional, and institutional dimensions of torture and redress. Essays in this volume consider torture from diverse locations – the Philippines, Argentina, Sudan, and Guantánamo, among others. From across the globe, contributors witness both individual pain and institutional complicity; the challenges of building communities of healing across linguistic and national divides; and the role of the law, art, writing, and teaching in representing and responding to torture.
Download or read book New Tactics in Human Rights written by Tricia Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 200-page book includes 100 inspiring stories from around the world that focus on HOW innovative practitioners are advancing human rights. Learn how:?Peace Brigades International protects endangered human rights activists using unarmed volunteer ?body guards?;?30 million people in Turkey were inspired to participate in a massive campaign against government corruption;?The Documentation Center of Cambodia promotes healing for genocide survivors by tracing the fates of disappeared loved ones; and?Nigdy Wiecej in Poland has created a network of volunteer correspondents to document incidents of neo-fascist violence around the country.In addition to these case studies, the book also includes an introduction to tactical and strategic thinking for human rights practitioners and a series of practical worksheets to help organizations determine which tactics and strategies will work best for them.
Download or read book Treatment of Torture and Trauma Survivors in a Post war Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
