Title Broken spirits : the treatment of traumatized asylum seekers, refugees, war and torture victims / edited by John P. Wilson, Boris Drožđek

Published New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 706 pages) : illustrations Contents Part I. Theoretical, Conceptual, and Sociocultural Considerations -- From hope for a better life to broken spirits : an introduction / Vamik D. Volkan -- The global challenge of asylum / Derrick Silove -- A global perspective of torture, political violence, and health / Jens Modvig and James M. Jaranson -- Ethnocultural considerations in the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers / Jorge Aroche and Mariano J. Coello -- Assessing PTSD and comorbidity : issues in differential diagnosis / Alexander C. McFarlane -- Part II. Broken Spirits : traumatic injury to culture, the self, and personality -- The broken spirit : posttraumatic damage to the self / John P. Wilson -- Public mental health and culture : disasters as a challenge to Western mental health care models, the self, and PTSD / Joop de Jong -- Part III. Posttraumatic Treatments : guidelines for practitioners -- Creating a safe therapeutic sanctuary / Guus van der Veer and Adeline van Waning -- Strengthening psychological health in war victims and refugees / Silvana Turković, Johannes E. Hovens, and Rudolf Gregurek -- Uncovering : trauma-focused treatment techniques with asylum seekers / Boris Drožđek and John P. Wilson -- Empathy, trauma transmission, and countertransference in posttraumatic psychotherapy / John P. Wilson -- Clinical supervision for trauma therapists / Johan Lansen and Ton Haans -- The presence of a third party : a dialogical view on interpreter-assisted treatment / Hanneke Bot and Cecilia Wadensjö -- Part IV. Nonverbal and Experiential Therapies -- Psychomotor therapy : healing by action / Bram de Winter and Boris Drožđek -- Body psychotherapy with survivors of torture / Sylvia Karcher -- About a weeping willow, a phoenix rising from its ashes, and building a house-- art therapy with refugees : three different perspectives / Truus Wertheim-Cahen, Marion van Dijk, Karin Schouten, Inge Roozen, and Boris Drožđek -- Sounds of trauma : an introduction to methodology in music therapy with traumatized refugees in clinical and outpatient settings / Jaap Orth, Letty Doorschodt, Jack Verburgt, and Boris Drožđek -- Part V. Treatment of Special Populations : gender and developmental considerations -- Where meanings, sorrow, and hope have a resident permit : treatment of families and children / Joachim Walter and Julia Bala -- In-between : adolescent refugees in exile / Hubertus Adam and Jelly van Essen -- Gender-specific treatment / Marianne C. Kastrup and Libby Tata Arcel -- Part VI. Medical, Surgical, and Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Refugees and Torture Victims -- Psychopharmacology for refugee and asylum-seeker patients / J. David Kinzie and Matthew J. Friedman -- Surgical approach to victims of torture and PTSD / Marianne Juhler -- Psychosocial rehabilitation / Solvig Ekblad and James M. Jaranson -- Part VII. Legal, Moral, and Political Issues in the Treatment Process -- Legal issues in work with asylum seekers / Jane Herlihy, Carla Ferstman, and Stuart W. Turner -- The politics of asylum and immigration detention : advocacy, ethics, and the professional role of the therapist / Zachary Steel, Sarah Mares, Louise Newman, Bijou Blick, and Michael Dudley Summary Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims and political refugees does not exist. Broken Spirits aims to bring together the works of the most respected mental health professional Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment Refugees -- Rehabilitation War victims -- Rehabilitation Torture victims -- Rehabilitation Refugees -- Mental health services War victims -- Mental health services Torture victims -- Mental health services War -- Psychological aspects. Psychiatry, Transcultural. Cultural psychiatry. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- therapy Human Rights Abuses -- psychology Refugees -- psychology Stress, Psychological -- psychology Survivors -- psychology Torture -- psychology Ethnopsychology PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Cultural psychiatry Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment Psychiatry, Transcultural Refugees -- Mental health services Refugees -- Rehabilitation Torture victims -- Mental health services Torture victims -- Rehabilitation War -- Psychological aspects Posttraumatische stressstoornis. Psychotherapie. Politieke vluchtelingen. Form Electronic book Author Wilson, John P. (John Preston) Drožđek, Boris. LC no. 2003027251 ISBN 0203310543 9780203310540 9781135946418 1135946418 9781135946425 1135946426 9781135946371 113594637X 9781138987975 1138987972 9786610064205 6610064202

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