Challenging Psychosocial Responses to Female Civilians in Armed Conflict
Military Missions and their Implications Reconsidered: The Aftermath of September 11th
ISBN: 978-0-44451-960-3, eISBN: 978-1-84950-012-8
Publication date: 1 January 2005
Abstract
Trauma has become a buzz term, and the responses to trauma are slick and swift. Teams of mental health professionals can now be dispatched within hours of a catastrophe, and psychological intervention is fast becoming an industry. A more penetrating look at the state of trauma intervention reveals a less impressive picture. In spite of the heightened interest in the effects of trauma, mental health professionals are in fact a long way from fully understanding the impact of such trauma, and from providing responses to victims that are effective. Not only do we lack a psychotherapeutic antidote that can be distributed to the hundreds of thousands of victims of conflict across the globe, but to date we have failed to provide scientifically evaluated, evidence-based treatment guidelines for the psychological rehabilitation of victims.
Citation
Bell, P. (2005), "Challenging Psychosocial Responses to Female Civilians in Armed Conflict", Caforio, G. and Kümmel, G. (Ed.) Military Missions and their Implications Reconsidered: The Aftermath of September 11th (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 331-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-8323(05)02018-7
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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