Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brown, Rachel (Psychologist)
2. Goins, Stephanie.
3. Mason, Clare.

Description

1. ix, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series statement

1. Explorations in mental health series

Uniform title

1. Explorations in mental health series.

Subject

1. Post-traumatic stress disorder
2. Survivors > psychology
3. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
4. War Exposure
5. Children and war > Sierra Leone > Psychological aspects
6. Violence > psychology
7. Sierra Leone
8. Children and war > Psychological aspects
9. Resilience (Personality trait) > Sierra Leone
10. Post-traumatic stress disorder > Sierra Leone
11. War victims > Mental health > Sierra Leone
12. Exposure to Violence > psychology
13. Resilience, Psychological

Contents

1. Part 1. Background -- A typical encounter in freetown -- Psychological responses to warfare -- The people of Sierra Leone -- Eleven years of civil war and eleven years of recovery -- Part 2. Survivors? stories -- Child soldiers? stories: killing was the order of the day -- Amputees? stories: reconstructing life as a one-foot person -- Mental health service providers? stories: heredity, environment, or demons? -- Stories from within mental health settings: social context as a frame and a chain -- Refugees? stories: walking for your life -- Part 3. Implications -- Post-traumatic stress, growth, and resilience -- Mental health service provision -- Perpetration of violence -- Forgiveness and reconciliation -- Culture, society and ways of understanding -- Lessons learnt.

Call number

1. Sc E 16-1394

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Winter, David A., 1950-

Title

1. Trauma, survival and resilience in war zones : the psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond / David A. Winter, Rachel Brown, Stephanie Goins and Clare Mason.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Explorations in mental health series
2. Explorations in mental health series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local note

1. AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE.

Added author

1. Brown, Rachel (Psychologist)
2. Goins, Stephanie.
3. Mason, Clare.

LCCN

1. 2015020092

ISBN

1. 9781138799691 (hbk.)
2. 1138799696 (hbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc E 16-1394