Journal of Loss and Trauma
Volume 20, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 449-467

Psychotherapy with Refugees: Emerging Paradigm (Article)

Kira I.A.* , Tummala-Narra P.
  • a Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies, Stone Mountain, GA, United States
  • b Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

Abstract

Much clinical and trauma work has focused on interventions with individuals experiencing interpersonal violence and past traumas. Refugees' experiences include past and present and chronic intergroup and interpersonal traumas with cumulative linear and nonlinear dynamics. Refugees face unique social and political traumatogenic ecologies that can play at least an equivalent or even more significant role in traumatic stress compared with that of survivors of interpersonal trauma who do not experience atrocities such as exile, political and religious persecution, and torture. Evolving paradigms of intervention need to be developed to integrate individual and ecological models of recovery that focus on the whole person within her or his social and political ecology and on past as well as present traumatogenic experiences; in addition, these paradigms need to mobilize refugees' resilience. © 2015, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Author Keywords

intergroup trauma continuous traumatic stress ecological model of recovery Refugees discrimination Torture Interpersonal trauma

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938417168&doi=10.1080%2f15325024.2014.949145&partnerID=40&md5=fd9983ceb17440af1e4840c6980a7bbc

DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2014.949145
ISSN: 15325024
Cited by: 16
Original Language: English