Living in Limbo: conflict-induced displacement in europe and central asia

The objective of the study is to analyze conflict-induced displacement from the point of view of vulnerability, using a multifaceted definition of vulnerability. As many as 10 million people have been displaced by war in the Europe and Central Asia region since 1990. While many people have been able to return home, approximately half remain displaced, with no available avenues for sustainable reintegration.

A therapeutic training course for traumatised adolescent refugees

 

 

This article describes a therapeutic framing course suitable for traumatised adolescent refugees, aimed at coping with nightmares. The training connects directly with the complaints and symptoms of these refugees. As a result they feel less helpless. Sometimes this training becomes a point of departure for therapy during which traumatic experiences are discussed.

Keywords: adolescents, unaccompanied minors, PTSD

The problems of adolescent refugees in a western country

Reintegration of soldiers: The missing piece

 

 

This paper is based on findings from a support group that was run at the Trauma Clinic in the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSFR) in Johannesburg, South Africa. It offered an intensive vocational training course with psychosocial interventions over a period of three months. The psychosocial interventions included a two-hour weekly psycho-education programme and a two-hour weekly support group intervention.

Making Tangible Gains in Parent-Child Relationships with Traumatized Refugees

Traumatized refugees arrive in a new country exhausted, depleted and disoriented. Moreover, they have to face many new challenges such as getting legal residency, learning a new language and the ways of a new culture, finding housing, employment, etc:. With all these burdens, most parents have little solace to offer their children,, children who are also uprooted and overwhelmed.

Narrative Theatre for Social Action: A skill for psychosocial workers

This article describes the general use of Narrative Theatre and the skills needed by facilitators. The context fusing Narrative Theatre in the long term to strengthen social action is described. Emphasis and detail is given to the short-term application of Narrative Theatre as an activity or event:. The importance of structural support in terms of management, supervision in the field and on-going raining is highlighted. Practical application is illustrated by an example from the field.

A protocol for psychosocial intervention in refugee crisis; early experiences in Rwandan refugee camps

This paper describes the conceptual framework and application of a working model (‘EPSoCare) for psychosocial interventionfor refugees living in camps in low income countries. The intervention's main objective is social re-integration of individuals with psychosocial problems. The model was applied in pilot programmes in camps with survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The interventions aimed to cover 360.000 refugees in camps in Tanzania, and 230.000 in a camp in Zaire.

Integration of psychosocial counselling in care systems in Nepal

In Nepal,, as is the case in many non-Western countries, psychosocial programmes have not been structurally integrated in the care giving spectrum. Integration f psychosocial programmes raises ideological issues and is complicated by practical difficulties. This article describes the current situation of psychosocial counselling in Nepal and what is still lacking, such as supervision systems, promotion of counselling, and effective strategies for community implementation.

Keywords: counselling, psychosocial programmes, training

 

Letter to the Editor. Some critical notes on Anica Mikus Kos & Vahida Huzejrovic: Volunteers as helpers in war-related distress.

Some critical notes on Anica Mikus Kos & Vahida Huzejrovic: Volunteers as helpers in war-related distress.

In this journal, Anica Mikus Kos & Vahida Huzejrovic (Intervention, 2003, Vol. 1 (2) pp. 50-56) recently described the role volunteers can play as helpers in war-related distress. They base their description on their experiences in this field during the recent Balkan war in former Yugoslavia.

Book/article reviews: Joop de Jong (ed.) (2002) Trauma, War and Violence: Public Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context

Book/article reviews

Joop de Jong (ed.) (2002) Trauma, War and Violence: Public Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context. Plenum, New York. pp. 454.

Community Psychosocial Support in Afghanistan

In 2001 Save the Children and UNICEF launched new programmes in Afghanistan,. The emphasis was not on mental health service delivery, but on a community-based psychosocial support strategy. The article discussed the principles f the work undertaken by the two agencies. It also explores both these research and project planning which was carried out in Kabul between 2 001 and 2002.

Key words: community based psychosocial support, qualitative research, child-to-child groups

 

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