Title Searching for normal in the wake of the Liberian war / Sharon Alane Abramowitz

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights Pennsylvania studies in human rights Contents Searching for normal in the wake of the Liberian war -- Clusters, coordination, and health sector transitions -- Trauma and the new normal -- Individual interventions -- The GBV proxy -- Ex-combatant rehabilitation -- Redemption time -- The healers Summary Sharon Alane Abramowitz examine how humanitarian healthcare dealt with mental health and psychiatry during Liberia's turbulent postwar transition, looking closely at the ways mental health and psychosocial interventions worked to manage trauma and produce postwar peace Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Women -- Violence against -- Liberia Psychic trauma -- Liberia Mental health -- Liberia -- International relations Postwar reconstruction -- Liberia Social psychology -- Liberia Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century International Agencies -- history Mental Health Services -- history Warfare Women -- psychology POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights. Postwar reconstruction Psychic trauma Psychological aspects Social conditions Social psychology Women -- Violence against SUBJECT Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1999-2003 -- Psychological aspects Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1989-1996 -- Psychological aspects Liberia -- Social conditions -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076469 Liberia Subject Liberia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812209938 0812209931 1322512957 9781322512952 0812246268 9780812246261

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