Caring for Victims of Torture
"This book is a welcome addition to the field of torture and trauma rehabilitation. It enables health care workers and physicians from a range of disciplines to understand the complexities of working with this population group at the individual, family, and community levels. It enables emerging practitioners to update their knowledge quickly and directs them to the skills required to be competent in this field. The book addresses questions and issues of relevance to the torture rehabilitation and trauma rehabilitation industry itself, enabling discussion and review of current clinical and service development approaches and political issues within the movement itself. It proposes the need for an openness and collaboration between medical and scientific approaches and alternative community-based and group work approaches. I highly recommend this volume not only for practitioners but also for medical students, psychotherapists, health workers, and other health professionals interested in moving into this field."-- "Margaret Cunningham, .S.W., Churchill Fellow, Lecturer, School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia"