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1. Seltzer, A. (2011, June). "I stood by a river“ – Integrating EMDR and sensorimotor psychotherapy in the treatment of torture survivor. Presentation at the 12th European Conference on Traumatic Stress (ECOTS), Vienna, Austria.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
I will be presenting the case of an Iranian refugee in the UK who was imprisoned for many years in Iran and subject to prolonged torture. I will discuss the use of integrated EMDR and sensorimotor psychotherapy in his treatment, and outline how standard treatments need to be adapted in the case of trauma arising from human rights abuses.
Keywords: Iran Prisoners Refuges Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Survivors Torture
Accuracy Verified: Yes
2. Burkhardt, L. (2003, May). Anxiety disorders – The treatment of victims of torture with EMDR. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Rome, Italy.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Anxiety Disorders Symposium Torture Treatment
Accuracy Verified: Yes
3. Bower, R. D., & Bernstein, M. A. (2004). Case presentation of a tattoo-mutilated, Bosnian torture survivor. Torture, 14(1), 16-24.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
Torture is used to create fear, destroy individuals and communities, and to suppress unwanted political or religious views. The survivor of torture often endures significant physical and psychological trauma. The basis for treating this trauma varies according to individual needs, community resources, programme designs, and cultural acceptance. The case presented here focuses on torture occurring during the Bosnian conflict of 1992 and demonstrates how the utilisation of a community-based, multidisciplinary network model can be effective in helping survivors through the recovery process. The unique circumstances of the study identify factors of imprisonment, rape, deprivation, physical violence and, particularly, body mutilation through tattooing. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Bosnians Case Report Cognitive Therapy Depressive Disorders Disfigurement Drug Therapy Females Generalized Anxiety Disorder Middle Aged Muslims Plastic Surgery Treatment Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Refugees Survivors Torture Yugoslav of Secession
Accuracy Verified: Yes
4. Berliner, P., Jacobsen, L., Lanev, P., & Mikkelsen, E. N. (2005). Cognitive behavioural therapy with torture survivors: A case report. In P. Berliner, J. G. Arenas, & J. O. Haagensen (Eds.), Torture and organised violence: Contributions to a professional human rights response (1 ed.) (pp. 109-123). Copenhagen, Denmark: Dansk Psykologisk Forlag.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Abstract:
No abstract available.
Keywords: Anxiety Disorders Behavior Therapy Cognitive Behavior Therapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Survivors Torture Torture Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
5. Tol, W. A., Jordans, M. J. D., Regmi, S., & Sharma, B. (2005, June). Cultural challenges to psychosocial counselling in Nepal. Transcultural Psychiatry, 42(2), 317-333. doi:10.1177/1363461505052670.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
This article describes the way in which the practice of psychosocial
counselling was adapted culturally to the context of Nepal within the
Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT). After a brief description of
the Nepali setting and CVICT’s counselling and training approach and the
relationship of its psychosocial counselling intervention with existing
methods of dealing with psychosocial problems, the cultural challenges of
implementing psychosocial counselling and our response to them are
sketched along with concepts deemed important in psychosocial counselling.
A discussion follows in which the authors’ stance on the export of
psychosocial counselling to non-western cultures is outlined.
Keywords: Centre for Victims of Torture Cross-Cultural Nepal Training
Accuracy Verified: Yes
6. Ilic, Z. (2004). EMDR in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder with prisoners of war. In Ž. Špiric, G. Kneževic, V. Jovic, & G. Opacic (Eds.), Torture in war: Consequences and rehabilitation of victims – Yugoslav experience. (pp. 281-289). Belgrade, Serbia: International Aid Network.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Abstract:
The experience of imprisonment and torture of exposure to psychophysical stress is the highest intensity, which leads to high percentage of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and has a tendency hronifikacije. The program of assistance to victims of torture at the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims-IAN Belgrade apply the method of cognitive behavioral desensitization and reprocessing rapid eye movements (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR), which has proven successful in treatment and is part of an integrative therapeutic procedures. The paper presented a theoretical concept of this method with some specific work with victims of torture and the case [Author]
Keywords: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychotherapeutic Processes PTSD Serbs Survivors Torture Yugoslav Wars of Secession
Accuracy Verified: Yes
7. Richman, S. (2009, March). EMDR in the treatment of survivors of torture. Symposium conducted at the 7th annual EMDR Association UK & Ireland Conference, Manchester, UK.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
This presentation seeks to address some of the challenges of using EMDR
cross-culturally with highly traumatised clients who have been the victims of physical and/or
psychological torture. The presentation will review characteristics of torture and how the
helplessness experienced by victims physically and psychologically can help the therapist to
case conceptualization and encourage adaptive learning with interweaves to assist the
processing allowing adaptive linkage being made with dysfunctional memory storage.
EMDR is very effective where trauma survivors present with somatisation, dissociation and
frozen states but desensitization and reprocessing can only be embarked upon after
adequate stabilization in the Preparation Phase. Methods of stabilization (including somatic
stabilization) will be covered and thereafter the basic EMDR protocol implemented with the
client focusing on damage to the self and the spirit.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
8. Richman, S, (2009, June). EMDR in the treatment of survivors of torture. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Complex Trauma Torture Victim
Accuracy Verified: Yes
9. Richman, A. (2006, June). EMDR in the treatment of torture survivors. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Istanbul, Turkey .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Torture Survivors
Accuracy Verified: Yes
10. Richman, A. (2006, March). EMDR in the treatment of victims of torture. Presentation at the 4th annual Conference of the EMDR UK & Ireland Association, London, UK.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
As trauma therapists we are increasingly encountering the challenges of using
EMDR cross-culturally with highly traumatised clients who are refugees from wartorn
countries and/or oppressive regimes. This presentation seeks to address
some of the issues to be taken into consideration and the difficulties in working
with the victims of systematic infliction of physical and/or psychological torture.
Use of EMDR with these highly traumatised individuals will be examined and
ways in which the basic EMDR protocol may need to be adapted to treat these
highly traumatised individuals will be examined.
Keywords: Victims of Torture
Accuracy Verified: Yes
11. Jakobsen, M. (2002, May). EMDR with survivors of torture. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Frankfurt, Germany.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Accuracy Verified: Yes
12. Ilic, Z. P, Lecic-Tosevski, D. M., Bokonjic, S., Drakulic, B., & Jovic, V. (1999). EMDR: Kognitivno bihejvioralna metoda u lecenju posttraumatskog stresnog poremecaja kod zrtava torture [EMDR: Cognitive behavioral method for posttraumatic stress disorder in torture victims]. Psihijatrija Danas, 31(2-3), 245-269.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
(In both English and Serbian)
The experience of confinement to prison with exposure to psychophysical torture is the stress of the highest intensity frequently leading (48.4% in our research) to the development of PTSD with a tendency towards chronicity. In the programme for torture victims at the Stress Clinic we also use EMDR-cognitive behavioral method of desensitization and reprocessing (cognitive restructuration) by rapid eye movements which proved to be very effective and became the part of the integrative therapeutic procedure. The paper discusses the theoretical concept of this method and provides case presentation. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Clinical Case Study Empirical Study Psychotherapeutic Processes PTSD Serbs Survivors Torture Yugoslav Wars of Secession
Accuracy Verified: Yes
13. Greenwald, R. (1998, April). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): New hope for children suffering from trauma and loss. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 3(2), 279-287. doi:10.1177/1359104598032010.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a recently developed method for working through traumatic memories and related psychological problems. Recent literature reviews find strong support for EMDR's value in trauma therapy. The first studies using EMDR wth children and adolescents yield similar findings. A case is presented to illustrate the procedure as used in clinical practice. EMDR appears to be a promising new resource for helping children and adolescents recover from truama and loss. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Case Report Clinical Case Study Empirical Study Females Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Preadolescents PTSD Rape Survivors Torture
Accuracy Verified: Yes
14. Kaplan, S. & van Ommeren, M. (2001, June). A model for training in low income countries: Nepal. EMDRIA Newsletter, 6(2), 4.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Abstract:
EMDR training is always a challenge. Training paraprofessionals
across cultures in low- income countries in a safe and sustainable
way is an even greater challenge. Under the auspices of
EMDR-HAP, we recently offered training to paraprofessionals in Nepal,
who work with victims of torture. The training consisted of four key
elements:
1. The paraprofessionals who participated had been trained and
were experienced in effective counseling methods other than EMDR.
2. The training was tailored to the needs of the trainees, to
the needs of their clients, and included a significant amount
of supervised practice.
3. It was a combined effort with a visiting trainer and a seasoned
EMDR therapist who was associated with and had prepared the
trainees for the training.
4. This local clinician offered immediate and on-going follow
up consultation/ supervision.
Keywords: Nepal
Accuracy Verified: Yes
15. Hćrĺs, T. (2009, October). Omstridt behandling av posttraumatisk stress [Controversial treatment of post traumatic stress]. Sykepleien, 60-62.
Language: Norwegian
Format: Newsletter
Abstract:
I lřpet av de siste ĺrene har vi hatt en
tidobling av antall flyktninger som
oppholder seg i Norge (1). Pĺ bakgrunn
av dette ser vi at helsevesenet
mřter mange utfordringer i forhold
til innvandrerpasienter (2). Halvparten
av innvandrere i Norge oppgir ĺ
bli diskriminert (3). Mange av disse
pasientene sliter med Posttraumatisk
stresslidelse (PTSD). Til enhver tid
regner man med at cirka en prosent
av befolkningen lider av PTSD (4).
Over the past year we have had a
tidobling the number of refugees
staying in Norway (1). On the basis
of this we see that the health care system
face many challenges in relation
immigrant patients (2). Half
of immigrants in Norway claim to
be discriminated against (3). Many of these
patients suffering from Post Traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). At all times
estimated that approximately one percent
of the population suffers from PTSD (4).
Keywords: Refugee Mental Illness Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Stress Torture War
Accuracy Verified: Yes
16. Quiroga, J., & Jaranson, J. M. (2005). Politically-motivated torture and its survivors: A desk study review of the literature. Torture, 16(2-3), 1-112.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
This desk study intends to update and complement
the desk study review of the torture
rehabilitation literature completed in 1998
(Gurr and Quiroga, 2001), emphasizing
areas not covered by the original study but
updating the torture rehabilitation literature
from the publication of the original desk
study. Some selected earlier references have
been retained, but the focus remains primarily
on the published literature from 1998
through mid-2004. This paper intends to
stand alone but will refer back to original
study. The target audience is those working
in or interested in the field of rehabilitation
of politically motivated torture survivors.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
17. van der Kolk, B. A. (2000). Posttraumatic stress disorder and the nature of trauma. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2(1), 7-22.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
The role of psychological trauma (e.g., rape, physical assaults, torture, motor vehicle accidents) as an etiological factor in mental disorders, anticipated as early as the 19th century by Janet, Freud, and Breuer, and more specifically during World War I and II by Kardiner, was "rediscovered" some 20 years ago in the wake of the psychlogical traumas inflicted by the Vietnam war and the discussion "in the open" of sexual abuse and rape by the women's liberation movement. 1980 marked a major turning point, with the incorporation of the diagnostic construct of PTSD into DSM-III and the definition of its main diagnostic criteria (reexperiencing of the traumatic event, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and symptoms of increased arousal). Initially described as resulting from a onetime severe traumatic incident, PTSD has now been shown to be triggered by chronic multiple traumas as well. This "state-of-the-art" article discusses past and current understanding of the disorder, with particular emphasis on the recent explosive developments in neuroimaging and other fields of the neurosciences that have highlighted the complex interrelationships between psychological, psychiatric, biological, and neuroanatomical components of the disorder, and opened up entirely new therapeutic perspectives on how to help the victims of trauma overcome their past. [Author Abstract]
Keywords: Etiology Historical Account Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
18. Ilic, Z. (2004). Psychological preparation of torture victims as witnesses toward the prevention of retraumatisation. In Ž. Špiric, G. Kneževic, V. Jovic, & G. Opacic (Eds.), Torture in war: Consequences and rehabilitation of victims – Yugoslav experience. (pp. 377-387) Belgrade, Serbia: International Aid Network.
Language: English
Format: Book Section
Abstract:
This work presents psychological specificities of situations where torture victims are
witnesses at the court trial of perpetrators at the same time. Witnesses are subject to the
risk of secondary traumatisation, retraumatisation and revictimatisation, which may lead to
the deterioration of existing PTSD symptoms. Starting from the very act of reaching the
decision whether to testify, witnesses are in a state of ambivalence associated with a need
for truth and justice, the need that perpetrators should be adequately punished and thus
certain compensation be provided as well as with fear of the course that the trial itself may
take, they being partially aware of the risk for retraumatisation and retraumatisation. The
author sets forth the need for psychological-psychiatric preparation of the witness prior to
the trial, as well as co-operation between judicial organs and psychiatric-psychological
service. The paper features examples from the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims
– IAN Belgrade.
Accuracy Verified: Yes
19. Sondergaard, H. P., & Elofsson, U. (2008). Psychophysiological studies of EMDR. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 2(4), 282-288. doi:10.1891/1933-3196.2.4.282.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been established as an efficacious therapy
for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The working mechanism of the procedure is, however, still
partly unknown. It is therefore important to explore the physiological effects of eye movements and alternative
bilateral stimulation. This article describes our research on the effects of eye movements during
authentic EMDR sessions of chronic PTSD in refugees with war and torture experiences and places this
research in the context of other findings. The findings point to definite physiological effects of eye movements;
namely a dearousal with increased finger temperature and changes in the balance between the
parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomous nervous systems.
Keywords: Finger Temperature Heart Rate Variability Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychophysiology PTSD
Accuracy Verified: Yes
20. Ramos-Ruggiero, L., & Sondergaard, H. P. (2008, April). Recovered traumatic memories through eye movements? A Case presentation from Sweden. Presentation at the 1st B-Annual International European Society for Trauma and Dissociation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
This is a case presentation regarding the treatment of a severely traumatized woman
formerly treated for depression and PTSD following incarceration in prison,
“disappearance” of husband, and torture. After psychotherapy for several years, the
patient improved and started to work in a qualified job. After some years, however, the
patient returns because she has a feeling that the therapy was unfinished, and because of
remaining psychosomatic symptoms, difficulties breathing, obesity, overeating, and
recurrent urinary tract infections. The therapist then decided to try the resource installation
protocol. However, in an impulse, he asked her to concentrate on her bodily sensations.
Several video-recorded sequences illustrate how the patient, seemingly for the first time in
her life, discovered and re-experienced childhood trauma. It seems that the eye
movements during attempts at EMDR treatment made it possible to lift repression and
dissociation as well as to make processing possible, thus liberating the patient from a
heavy burden of mental and psychosomatic symptoms. At follow-up by the second author,
the patient is entirely asymptomatic, with low DES scores and is no longer obese.
Learning objectives:
1. Somatoform symptoms as a bridge to dissociated traumatic childhood experiences
2. How dissociation might lift during treatment
3. Recent research findings regarding the effect of eye movements on episodic
memory.
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Keywords: Eye Movements Sweden
Accuracy Verified: Yes
21. Ramos-Ruggiero, L., & Solomon, R. (2004, June). Recovery and processing of repressed traumatic memories during EMDR. In psychodynamics and EMDR (R. Hultstrand, Chair). Symposium conducted at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, Stockholm, Sweden .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
The identification and description of different defense mechanisms was one of Freud’s early discoveries. Defense mechanisms are defined as unconscious strategies in order to protect the subject from painful and anxious emotions or affects. The first defense mechanism described by Freud was repression. The repression is defined as the process in which unacceptable impulses and/or affects associated with traumatic experiences, or unresolved conflicts are repressed into the unconscious.
During the last 100 years, a number of discussions and controversies have taken place regarding repression. Are the so-called repressed memories and experiences stored somewhere? In that care, how can the subject get access to such repressed memories during the psychotherapeutic process?
Originally, Freud suggested hypnosis and later on free associations as a way of accessing repressed and unprocessed traumatic experiences and the underlying emotional conflicts in ‘neurotic’ psychopathology.
Is it possible to use EMDR in order to track down repressed memories of severe traumatic memories? If this is indeed possible, can EMDR make possible both a re-experiencing and a processing of the conflictual content? Is it possible to work through and integrate shame, guilt, and hate associated with grave abuse through EMDR treatment?
During this workshop, an extensive clinical material is presented from treatment sessions with Grace, a woman of 55 with severely traumatic background (torture, prison, and childhood sexual abuse). During the workshop, several video-taped sequences will serve as examples of the remarkable findings as Grace, assisted by eye movements, for the first time recovers and re-experiences severely traumatic childhood experiences.
The EMDR treatment works simultaneously in disarming repression, to process, and to liberate her from severe psychosomatic symptoms; symptoms which have neither found explanation nor remedy during a long treatment process.
Keywords: Psychodynamism Repressed Memories Symposium
Accuracy Verified: Yes
22. Neubauer, I. (2005, May 7-8). Searching for answers: The cousin of a US national killed by the Khmer Rouge seeks closure in Cambodia. The Cambodian Daily. Retreived from http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/selected_features/cd-07-05-05.htm on September 22, 2011.
Language: English
Format: Newspaper
Abstract:
Discouraged with conventional psychiatry, Bittner sought a practitioner of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. The process is "the most effective and rapid method for treating post-traumatic stress disorder and has been used extensively to treat survivor's of the Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US," according to BioLateral.com, an EMDR Web Site. [Excerpt]
Keywords: Cambodia Don Bittner Drug Trade Khmer Rouge Lance McNamara Torture
Accuracy Verified: No
23. Dodgson, P. W. (2007, June). Shame: The adaptive information processing model and introduction of the "protocol interweave" in EMDR with victims of torture, rape and organised violence. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR Europe Association, Paris, France.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
Shame is often a key component of post-traumatic stress and one that can inhibit processing because the person concerned feels no compassion for the self that was shamed. Shame may lead to despising or hating that self so that allowing the self to grow, to recovered, feels almost impossible. Shame is experienced cognitively, emotionally, and somatically: in “brain, heart, and body.”
Shame may lead to blocked processing that does not respond to cognitive interweaves or other approaches such as changes in speed, modality and direction of bilateral stimulation, or “TICES’ strategies, changing aspects of images, cognitions or emotional and sensory interventions. Typically, Subjective Units of Distress scale scored stick at 4.
This paper will draw on clinical work with people who have experienced rape, torture and organized violence and explore ways of unlocking the inhibiting factors of shame, enabling the victim of personal violence to have compassion for themselves, and forgiveness. With compassion, a person can allow themself to recover, and processing the memories of the traumatic incident or incidents can move to adaptive resolution.
The paper will present case material using the adaptive information processing model as a helpful way of enabling clinets to normalize their mental, emotional and somatic reactions, to structure what often seems like a chaotic inner world and to address issues including shame.
This paper will propose a protocol for EMDR psychotherapy with people who have been victims of rape, torture, and organized violence and will introduce a “protocol interweave” for working with people for whom shame is a factor that impedes effective processing.
The “protocol interweave” focuses on the ‘self who has been shamed” and adapts the desensitization phase to enable the individual to process material associated with their thoughts, feelings, and sensations with regards to the self of whom they are ashamed and whom they may despise. The paper will also examine recent thinking about shame, compassion and forgiveness and reflect on similarities across psychotherapeutic modalities such as gestalt and cognitive behaviour therapy and the way in which EMDR is an integrative model that accommodates these.
The presentation will include PowerPoint and video clips of clinical consultations.
Keywords: Adaptive Information Processing AIP Organised Violence Protocol Interweave Rape Shame Torture
Accuracy Verified: Yes
24. Kayal, H. (2013, June). Stabilisation techniques in preparation for trauma focused interventions with refugees. Presentation at the 13th annual conference for the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), Bologna, Italy.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
A phased model of treatment is recommended for the treatment of people who have experienced repeated and multiple traumas and who may still be facing ongoing stress and threat. Establishing a sense of safety and stability is the first stage of treatment before any exposure work can begin. This can be particularly challenging when treating refugees with complex PTSD presentations. This interactive workshop will explore treatment approaches to establishing a sense of safety and stability in preparation for trauma focused therapy. Case examples of torture survivors, victims of trafficking and domestic abuse will be presented to illustrate some of the difficulties in this stage of treatment and interventions.
The workshop will promote an understanding of:
•Complex PTSD presentations in refugees and asylum seekers
•Stabilisation and symptom management in preparation for trauma focused interventions
•Managing dissociative flashbacks, dissociative seizures and sensory/physical flashbacks
•Cognitive techniques for managing shame, guilt and self blame which may be barriers to exposure work
•How best to work with trauma memories and when to use NET, CBT or EMDR
•Cultural considerations
•Managing vicarious traumatisation and self care
Keywords: Refugees Stablilization
Accuracy Verified: Yes
25. Spiric, Z, Knezevic, G, Jovic, V., & Opacic, G. (Eds.) (2004). Tortura u ratu, posledice i rehabilitacija. Jugoslovensko iskustvo [Torture in war: Consequences and rehabilitation of victims – Yugoslav experience]. Beograd: Centar za rehabilitaciju žrtava torture [Belgrade: International Aid Network].
Language: Serbian
Format: Book
Abstract:
"Ideja o ovoj monografiji začela se nakon dve godine rada Centra za rehabilitaciju žrtava torture (CRŽT) u okviru Međunarodne mreže pomoći - IAN Beograd (International Aid Network - IAN Belgrade). Ona je bila izraz potrebe profesionalaca u IAN-u da svoja iskustva u radu sa žrtvama torture i traume podele sa širom, stručnom, profesionalnom i naučnom javnošću...
"The idea of this monograph was conceived after two years of the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (CRŽT) within International Aid Network - IAN Belgrade (International Aid Network - IAN Belgrade). She was the need of professionals in IAN-in to their experience in work with victims of torture and trauma of separation from all over, technical, professional and scientific public ...
Accuracy Verified: Yes
26. Dodgson, P., Zaghrout-Hodali, M., Ferdoos, A., Wright, J., & Moore, P. (2008, September). Transforming fear: EMDR with victims of torture and organized violence. Presentation at the annual meeting of the EMDR International Association, Phoenix, AZ.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract: to EMDR HAP in the Middle East and presentation of clinical work and a pilot study in a situation of ongoing conflict, including early intervention; a presentation of clinical work with victims of torture and organized violence and treatment protocols relating to safety, shame, and working with interpreters; outline of a preliminary study in the use of an EMDR group protocol with adults; clinical case discussion and interactive questions and answers. Participants are invited to bring case outlines and material and to take part in use of the group protocol.
Keywords: Fear Organized Crime Torture Vicitms
Accuracy Verified: Yes
27. Marotta, S. A. (2003, Winter). Unflinching empathy: Counselors and tortured refugees. Journal of Counseling and Development, 81(1), 111-114. doi:10.1002/j.1556-6678.2003.tb00232.x.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract:
After the events of September 11, 2001, and at a time in world history when refugees and displaced persons are moving about the world in numbers that are unprecedented (United States Committee for Refugees, 2001), the likelihood of counselors encountering refugees is increased regardless of their treatment settings, from schools to government agencies. Civilians are increasingly at risk for being victimized by organized political violence (Porter & Haslam, 2001), and the United States alone hosts almost half a million refugees (United States Committee for Refugees, 2001). In the article "Refugee Survivors of Torture: Trauma and Treatment," Gorman (2001) illustrated dynamics that may go unrecognized by clinicians who work with these complex individuals and families, and he provided a holistic conceptualization of these dynamics.
Keywords: Counselors Empathy Refugees Torture
Accuracy Verified: Yes
28. Hol, G. (2011, June). Utilising EMDR as an integrative approach for the treatment of torture and trauma survivors. Presentation at the 12th European Conference on Traumatic Stress (ECOTS), Vienna, Austria.
Language: English
Format: Conference
Keywords: Survivors Torture Trauma
Accuracy Verified: Yes
29. Richman, A. (2004, June). Workshop refugees and EMDR - EMDR with refugees and victims of torture. Presentation at the EMDR Europe Association annual meeting, Stockholm, Sweden .
Language: English
Format: Conference
Abstract:
As trauma therapists we are increasingly encountering the challenge of using EMDR cross-culturally with highly traumatized clients who are refugees from war torn countries and/or oppressive regimes. This presentation seeks to address some of the difficulties of working across cultures, often with the aid of interpreters, who themselves may have been traumatized. EMDR has been found to be a highly effective treatment for refugees, especially where there is a high degree of somatization.
Accuracy Verified: Yes