A critique of seven assumptions behind psychological trauma programmes in war-affected areas.

D Summerfield - Social science & medicine (1982), 1999 - europepmc.org
Programmes costing millions of dollars to address' posttraumatic stress' in war zones have
been increasingly prominent in humanitarian aid operations, backed by UNICEF, WHO …

Resilience, hardiness, sense of coherence, and posttraumatic growth: all paths leading to “light at the end of the tunnel”?

AM Almedom - Journal of loss and trauma, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Two questions prompted this targeted review:(a) What are the behavioral and social
determinants of individual and/or collective resilience—the capacity to rebound from crisis …

[图书][B] Child soldiers: From violence to protection

M Wessells - 2006 - books.google.com
Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the
world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Kidnapped or lured …

[图书][B] Worlding women: A feminist international politics

JJ Pettman - 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
In Worlding Women Jan Jindy Pettman asks' Where are the women in international
relations'? She develops a broad picture of women in colonial and post-colonial relations; …

Misanthropy without borders: The international children's rights regime

V Pupavac - Disasters, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The issue of children's rights has become key to human rights‐based international security
strategies. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is being operationalised in …

Children under fire: Challenging assumptions about children's resilience

J Boyden - Children, youth and environments, 2003 - muse.jhu.edu
This article examines perceptions of childhood and child development and theories of
human responses to adversity that have arisen within the social and medical sciences and …

Systematic review of evidence and treatment approaches: Psychosocial and mental health care for children in war

MJD Jordans, WA Tol, IH Komproe… - Child and Adolescent …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background: There is a growing body of literature on interventions addressing psychosocial
wellbeing and mental health of children affected by violence in low‐and middle‐income …

Childhood, war, refugeedom and 'trauma': Three core questions for mental health professionals

D Summerfield - Transcultural psychiatry, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise of the discourse of 'trauma'as a major articulator of suffering within Western culture
is a facet of the medicalization of life that has gathered pace in the last century. In recent …

The rites of the child: Global discourses of youth and reintegrating child soldiers in Sierra Leone

S Shepler - Journal of human rights, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other
international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child …

Girls with guns: Narrating the experience of war of Frelimo's" female detachment"

HG West - Anthropological Quarterly, 2000 - JSTOR
This article examines the way in which female guerrillas both appropriated and contributed
to the FRELIMO narrative of women's participation in the struggle for Mozambican liberation …