Trauma Interventions in War and Peace: Prevention, Practice, and Policy

by Green, Bonnie L.

• ISBN13: 9780306477232
• ISBN10: 0306477238
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

With traumatic stress an increasing global challenge, the U.N., the NGO community and governments must take into account the psychological aftermath of large-scale catastrophes and individual or group violence. Trauma Interventions in War and Peace is a volume created to address this global perspective, and as such it provides a conceptual framework for interventions in the wake of abuse, torture, war, and disaster on individual, local, regional, and international levels. 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, and clinical intervention. A core group of chapters covers the general concepts of traumatic stress, intervention, and social deprivation, while others focus on specific traumatic events like refugees and child abuse in peacetime, each addressing the scope of the problem, reactions to the traumatic stressor, intervention issues, and recommendations. One whole chapter is devoted to caregiver reactions. Special features of the book are the integration of cultural, gender, poverty, and marginalization issues into each discussion, as well as the contributions of internationally noted academic and professional experts. U.N. and NGO personnel provided input and feedback on each chapter to provide the best working guidelines available for those responding to trauma around the world.

Author Biography

Lead editor Bonnie L. Green, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of Research and Trauma Studies, at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, DC, where she teaches psychiatry residents and conducts research. She has studied the consequences of traumatic events, including disasters and war, for several decades. Her research at Georgetown has focused on the psychological and physical health consequences of individual traumas experienced by women, including breast cancer, traumatic bereavement, and interpersonal violence. Her recent research focus is the mental health needs of poor women with serious trauma histories who receive their health care in settings serving low-income patients. These include NIMH-funded treatment studies targeting depression or PTSD in primary care. In another NIMH grant, she is studying relationships between patients and providers, how these may be affected by the patient's trauma history and attachment style, and what supports providers might need to help manage patients with trauma-related mental health problems. She is also involved in developing educational and coping interventions for traumatized women in primary care in collaboration with community partners. Dr. Green is past Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, and past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Table of Contents

I. OVERVIEW
WHO: From the Health Perspective	1	(72)
Shekhar Saxena
1. Introduction	3	(14)
Susan D. Solomon
2. Traumatic Stress and its Consequences	17	(16)
Bonnie L. Green
3. Social Deprivation	33	(24)
Ellen L. Bassuk and Brigid Donelan
4. Intervention Options for Society, Communities, Families, and Individuals	57	(16)
John A. Fairbank, Matthew J. Friedman, Joop T VM. De Jong, Bonnie L. Green, and Susan D. Solomon
II. ABUSE AND TORTURE
The Ascendant Ethical Self	73	(140)
Odile Frank
5. Child Abuse in Peacetime	75	(30)
David A. Wolfe and Madhabika B. Nayak
6. Abuse of Older People	105	(24)
Rosalie F. Wolf, Gerry Bennett, and Lia Daichman
7. People with Mental and Physical Disabilities	129	(26)
Kim T Mueser, Virginia A. Hiday, Lisa A. Goodman, and Denise Valenti-Hein
8. Violence Against Women	155	(30)
Mary Ann Dutton, Dean G. Kilpatrick, Merle Friedman, and Vikram Patel
9. Survivors of Mass Violence and Torture	185	(28)
Stuart Turner, Sahika Yuksel, and Derrick Silove
III. WAR AND DISASTERS
Coordinating Humanitarian Assistance with OCHA: Issues of Psychological Trauma	213	(106)
Mark Bowden
10. Children in Armed Conflict	217	(26)
William Yule, Rune Stuvland, Florence K. Baingana, and Patrick Smith
11. Refugees and Internally Displaced People	243	(28)
Nancy Baron, Soeren Buus Jensen, and Joop T. V.M. de Jong
12. Former Combatants	271	(20)
Brian Engdahl, Purnaka L. de Silva, Zahava Solomon, and Daya Somasundaram
13. Natural and Technological Disasters	291	(28)
Daya Somasundaram, Fran Norris, Nozomu Asukai, and R. Srinivasa Murthy
IV. UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL
UNSECOORD: Protecting the Protectors	319	(30)
Diana Russler
14. UN Peacekeepers and Civilian Field Personnel	323	(26)
Matthew J. Friedman, Peter G. Warfe, and Gladys K. Mwiti
V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
World Bank: An Overview and Some Next Steps	349	(14)
Florence K. Baingana
15. A Call to Action: Responding to Social and Humanitarian Crises	351	(12)
Terence M. Keane
Index	363