The psychological impact of war trauma on civilians
Subtitle: an international perspective
By: edited by Stanley Krippner and Teresa M. McIntyre ; foreword by Stevan E. Hobfoll ; afterword by Jeanne Achterberg.
Contributors: Krippner, Stanley, 1932-; McIntyre, Teresa M.
Series: Psychological dimensions to war and peace
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: War victims -- Mental health -- Cross-cultural studies; Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Cross-cultural studies; War -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : moving the borders of psychology to the aid of victims of war / Stevan E. Hobfoll; title: Overview : in the wake of war / Stanley Krippner and Teresa M. McIntyre.  Case studies and assessment. The women of Afghanistan and the freedom of thought / Adam Fish and Rona Popal; title: Healing the impact of colonization, genocide, and racism on indigenous populations / Betty Bastien ... [et al.]; title: Children of war : psychosocial sequelae of war trauma in Angolan adolescents / Teresa M. McIntyre and Margarida Ventura; title: War on the internal self : memory, human rights, and the unification of Germany / Bernina B. Gould; title: Assessing depression among survivors of the Rwanda genocide; title: Infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and war : impact on civilian psychological health / George M. Carter; title: An Asian youth as offender : the legacy of the Khmer Rouge / Clay Foreman.  Intervention and reconstruction. War and refugee suffering / Daryl S. Paulson; title: Self-therapy through personal writing : a study of Holocaust victims' diaries and memoirs / Sandrine Arons; title: Post-traumatic nightmares in Kuwait following the Iraqui invasion / Deirdre Barrett and Jaffar Behbehani; title: Psychosocial effects and treatment of mass trauma due to sociopolitical events : the Argentine experience / Lucila Edelman ... [et al.]; title: Cultural art therapy in the treatment of war trauma in children and youth : projects in the former Yugoslavia / A rpa d Bara th; title: Social sources of life : rehabilitation in the former Yugoslavia / Vesna Ognjenovic, Bojana Skorc, and Jovan Savic; title: Healing, social integration, and community mobilization for war-affected children : a view from Angola / Michael Wessels and Carlina Monteiro; title: Somato-psychotherapy at the Medical Foundation in London / Michael Korzinski (an interview by Stanley Krippner); title: Post-traumatic stress syndrome and related disorders among civilian victims of sexual trauma and exploitation in Southeast Asia / Glenn Graves.; title: Prevention. Toward a graduate curriculum in war trauma relief and ethnopolitical conflict resolution / Ronald J. Fisher; title: Before and after trauma : the difference between prevention and reconciliation activities in Macedonia / Sally Broughton; title: Change agentry in an Islamic context / Leila F. Dane; title: Peacebuilding by women in Lebanon / Mary Bentley Abu-Saba; title: Legacies of fear : religious repression and resilience in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.  Integrative summaries. When society is the victim : catastrophic trauma recovery / Steve S. Olweean; title: Poisoned dissociative containers : dissociative defenses in female victims of war rape / James D. Pappas; title: Challenges and opportunities for Southeast Asian refugee adolescents / Roben A. Marvit; title: Why war? : fear is the mother of violence / Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszcynski.  Afteword / Jeanne Achterberg; title: "How can this be?" / John Cannon and W. Harrison Childers.