Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations: A Sociocultural Exploration b

Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations by Gail Theisen-Womersley

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Description This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. conceptualises experiences of trauma from a sociocultural perspective (including collective trauma, collective aspirations, and collective resilience);

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This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised "passive victims".  The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populations has led it to become a critical and timely area of inquiry, and this book is an important addition to the literature. It gives an overview of theoretical frameworks related to trauma and migration—exploring factors of risk and resilience, prevalence rates of PTSD, and conceptualisations of trauma beyond psychiatric diagnoses; conceptualises experiences of trauma from a sociocultural perspective (including collective trauma, collective aspirations, and collective resilience); and provides applications for professionals working with displaced populations in complex institutional, legal, and humanitarian settings. It includes case studies based on the author's own 10-year experience working in emergency contexts with displaced populations in 11 countries across the world. This book presents unique data collected by the author herself, including interviews with survivors of ISIS attacks, with an asylum seeker in Switzerland who set himself alight in protest against asylum procedures, and women from the Murle tribe affected by the conflict in South Sudan who experienced an episode of mass fainting spells. This is an important resource for academics and professionals working in the field of trauma studies and with traumatised groups and individuals.

Author Biography

Dr. Gail Theisen-Womersley is a South African clinical psychologist who has developed and implemented mental health programmes with international associations in Iraq, Greece, the Philippines, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Israel, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This clinical experience includes conducting individual and group trauma-focused counselling for refugee and IDP populations affected by conflict, torture, and violence. It also includes counselling and training staff working in crisis environments. Gail has also worked as a clinical psychologist for the South African Department of Health and the Department of Defence. Her therapeutic orientation is informed by a sociocultural and systemic perspective of mental health. Her doctoral thesis, from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, explores PTSD among refugee victims of torture from this perspective.

Details ISBN 3030677141 ISBN-13 9783030677145 Title Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations Author Gail Theisen-Womersley Format Paperback Year 2021 Pages 305 Edition 1st Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG GE_Item_ID:140581239; About Us

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