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Author Overland, Gwynyth Jones

Title Post traumatic survival : the lessons of Cambodian resilience / by Gwynyth Overland
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; ABSTRACT; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; GLOSSARY OF CRITICAL TERMS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; APPENDICES; REFERENCES
Summary Some refugees who survive wars recover and thrive; others do not. This study sets out to discover what successful survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime found instrumental for both their survival and their mental health. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of resilience, here understood as the ability to recover from misfortune or change, in order to contribute to the psychosocial rehabilitation of survivors of war crimes and other traumatic events - to discover how war-refugees may be ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244)
Notes Print version record
Subject Political refugees -- Cambodia
Resilience (Personality trait)
Mental health services.
Coping with death & bereavement.
Health psychology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Political refugees
Resilience (Personality trait)
SUBJECT Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019092
Subject Cambodia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443861137
1443861138
9781306859011
1306859018