Trauma interventions in war and peace : prevention, practice, and policy /

Trauma interventions in war and peace : prevention, practice, and policy / edited by Bonnie L. Green [and others] ; with special consultant Yael Danieli.

To be useful to both practitioners and policy makers, the book identifies model programs that can be implemented at every level. These programs vary in target and intensity to include social policy, safety programs, public education, coordination, capacity building, training, self-help, counseling,...

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Other Authors: Green, Bonnie L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2003]
Series:International and cultural psychology series.
Subjects:
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
War > Psychological aspects.
Peace > Psychological aspects.
Mental health services.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Overview. WHO : from the health perspective / Shekhar Saxena
  • 1. Introduction / Susan D. Solomon
  • 2. Traumatic stress and its consequences / Bonnie L. Green
  • 3. Social deprivation / Ellen L. Bassuk and Brigid Donelan
  • 4. Intervention options for society, communities, families, and individuals / John A. Fairbank [and others]
  • II. Abuse and torture. The ascendant ethical self / Odile Frank
  • 5. Child abuse in peacetime / David A. Wolfe and Madhabika B. Nayak
  • 6. Abuse of older people / Rosalie F. Wolf, Gerry Bennett, and Lia Daichman
  • 7. People with mental and physical disabilities / Kim T. Mueser [and others]
  • 8. Violence against women / Mary Ann Dutton [and others]
  • 9. Survivors of mass violence and torture / Stuart Turner, Sahika Yuksel, and Derrick Silove
  • III. War and disasters. Coordinating humanitarian assistance with OCHA : issues of psychological trauma / Mark Bowden
  • 10. Children in armed conflict / William Yule [and others]
  • 11. Refugees and internally displaced people / Nancy Baron, Soeren Buus Jensen, and Joop T.V.M. de Jong
  • 12. Former combatants / Brian Engdahl [and others]
  • 13. Natural and technological disasters / Daya Somasundaram [and others]
  • IV. United Nations personnel. UNSECOORD : protecting the protectors / Diana Russler
  • 14. UN peacekeepers and civilian field personnel / Matthew J. Friedman, Peter G. Warfe, and Gladys K. Mwiti
  • V. Summary and conclusion. World Bank : an overview and some next steps / Florence K. Baingana
  • 15. A call to action : responding to social and humanitarian crises / Terence M. Keane.

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