torture survivors
The impact of torture on mental health in the narratives of two torture survivors
... Torture survivors are at an increased risk of a shattered sense of control and cognitive understanding about the self and ...place”). Torture may induce these types of cognitions ...
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The mental health needs of refugee torture survivors: exploring staff understandings
... traditionally-structured services; coupled with a desire to learn not only how to research a topic, but how to undertake a piece of research that might have practical policy applications. In collaboration with my ...
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Reviewing outcomes of psychological interventions with torture survivors: Conceptual, methodological and ethical Issues
... for torture survivors, and the complexity of contextual factors which can influence outcomes, it seems important that outcome studies do not singularly focus on individual ...
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Torture survivors’ symptom load compared to chronic pain and psychiatric in-patients
... were torture survivors) at the Clinic for PTSD and Transcultural Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital (CPTP) with psychiatric in-patients treated within the same Danish ...
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Evaluation of the efficacy of a South African psychosocial model for the rehabilitation of torture survivors
... on torture survivors are usually affected by small sample sizes, the lack of control groups (Jaranson & Quiroga, 2011) and instruments with limited validity and reliability often focused only on ...
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Impact of Narrative Exposure Therapy on torture survivors in the MENA region
... with torture survivors, especially in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region where health systems are unable to meet the increasing needs of mental health disorders caused by war and ...Against ...
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Rehabilitation of torture survivors in five countries: common themes and challenges
... of torture survivors very often takes place in extremely difficult social, political, and economic contexts, which has effect on both staff and ...with torture survivors are managing large ...
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Psychological, social, and welfare interventions for torture survivors: A systematic review and meta analysis of randomised controlled trials
... for torture survivors included 1,373 participants from 10 ...of torture survivors were largely conceptualised in terms of PTSD symptoms that constituted the focus of treatment and, often, the ...
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Descriptive, inferential, functional outcome data on 9,025 torture survivors over six years in the United States
... with torture treatment organizations in other regions of the world that might wish to build their own database and join us in these research endeavors, we have described in some detail in the Methods section the ...
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Psychological, social, and welfare interventions for torture survivors: A systematic review and meta analysis of randomised controlled trials
... 6 torture survivors and others had combat experience or witnessed traumatic events 12 married/steady relationship, 3 single, 1 divorced; 3 full-time work, 7 unemployed, 6 long-term sick leave; 10 up to high ...
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Effect of counseling by paraprofessionals on depression, anxiety, somatization, and functioning in Indonesian torture survivors
... and torture through- out the last 70 ...(torture survivors) improved after counseling services provided by trained paraprofessionals in ...help survivors of violence suffering from “heavy ...
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An evaluation of combined narrative exposure therapy and physiotherapy for comorbid PTSD and chronic pain in torture survivors
... refugee torture survivors with comorbid PTSD, depression and chronic pain received 20 sessions of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) and 10 sessions of ...some torture survivors who suffer high ...
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Towards a contextually appropriate framework to guide counseling of torture survivors in Sub-Saharan Africa
... Keywords: torture counseling; trauma; rehabil- itation; mixed-methods; sub-Saharan Africa Torture is practiced in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a problem greatly exacerbated by ongoing civil and ...
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Adaptation of community health worker-delivered behavioral activation for torture survivors in Kurdistan, Iraq
... depression and trauma-related symptoms and functioning among Kurdish torture survivors in Kurdistan. Detailed elsewhere (Bolton et al. 2014a), the adapted, paraprofessional delivered BATD intervention was ...
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Rehabilitation of torture survivors and prevention of torture: Priorities for research through a modified Delphi Study (with Commentaries)
... with torture survivors? Classical clinical databases gather mainly epidemiological information that provides a picture of what is out there; how many cases, with what profile and shows ...
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Psychotherapy for torture survivors - Suggested pathways for research
... for torture survivors with comorbid pain but how can we know which of the patients would benefit from it? If a wider scope is taken, this means considering the combination of patient and therapist ...
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Gender Inequality and Its Effects in Females Torture Survivors
... refugee torture survivors (conducted by the authors), GD, as well as the promotion of extreme male dominance and asymmetrical patriarchal world views, was perceived to be instrumental in the development of ...
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Perspective – The long journey to rehabilitation for torture survivors
... independence. Survivors said that until these are removed, they are unable to move on, mentally or ...that torture survivors experience, with many spending years trapped in the UK’s asylum system not ...
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A Remedy for Torture Survivors in International Law: Interpreting Rehabilitation
... with survivors of torture who have sought refuge in the United Kingdom, the Medical Foundation witnesses a growing problem: survivors of torture fail to gain protection either as refugees or ...
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Voices of torture survivors in Tanzania: A qualitative study
... of torture…so they protect their tables by putting the cloths…Then I told them I will say ...the torture…I had pain in my arms here (points to wrists), here (points to inner elbows) and my knees (points to ...
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