International responses to traumatic stress. Edited by Yael Danieli, Nigel S. Rodley, and Lars Weisaeth. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 1996, 473 pages. Hardbound $46
✍ Scribed by Matthew J. Friedman
- Book ID
- 102442358
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
The scope of this book is immense. On the one hand it vividly evokes the private anguish of war victims, refugees, torture survivors, humanitarian workers and UN peacekeepers. On the other, it describes the massive and diverse international organizational response to human suffering through the United Nations system, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The unifying theme is that given the ubiquity of exposure to traumatic events, the international community must develop mechanisms for implementing on a massive scale the clinical knowledge that has been developed in the field of traumatic stress studies.
The book is organized around eight major topics: victims of crime, violations of human rights, forced displacement, armed conflicts, natural disasters, traumatized children, traumatized women, and health activities across traumatized populations. Two chapters are devoted to each topic, one from the perspective of NGOs and the other from the UN institutional perspective (e.g.