@article{1430980,
      recid = {1430980},
      author = {Theisen-Womersley, Gail.},
      title = {Trauma and resilience among displaced populations : a  sociocultural exploration /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {This open access book provides an enriched understanding  of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related  trauma, emphasising the social and political location of  human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological  perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced  individuals as traumatised assive victims. The vastness of  the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populations has  led it to become a critical and timely area of inquiry, and  this book is an important addition to the literature. It  gives an overview of theoretical frameworks related to  trauma and migration xploring factors of risk and  resilience, prevalence rates of PTSD, and  conceptualisations of trauma beyond psychiatric diagnoses;  conceptualises experiences of trauma from a sociocultural  perspective (including collective trauma, collective  aspirations, and collective resilience); and provides  applications for professionals working with displaced  populations in complex institutional, legal, and  humanitarian settings. It includes case studies based on  the author own 10-year experience working in emergency  contexts with displaced populations in 11 countries across  the world. This book presents unique data collected by the  author herself, including interviews with survivors of ISIS  attacks, with an asylum seeker in Switzerland who set  himself alight in protest against asylum procedures, and  women from the Murle tribe affected by the conflict in  South Sudan who experienced an episode of mass fainting  spells. This is an important resource for academics and  professionals working in the field of trauma studies and  with traumatised groups and individuals.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1430980},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67712-1},
}