OBJECTIVE: To review stressful experiences and stress reactions among child and
adolescent refugees, as well as interventions and ethical considerations in research and …

Recent years have seen a consensus emerge on the treatment of post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) in the general population. No such consensus exists for refugees, although …

Drawing on years of research in the highlands of Ayacucho, Kimberly Theidon explores how
Peruvians are rebuilding individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of …

SUFFERING is ONE OF THE EXISTENTIAL GROUNDS of human experi-ence; it is a
defining quality, a limiting experience in human conditions. 1 It is also a master subject of …

Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in
Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica …

In the aftermath of a decade-long Maoist civil war in Nepal and the recent relocation of
thousands of Bhutanese refugees from Nepal to Western countries, there has been rapid …

Most of what we have learned about the personal costs of wartime trauma comes from
veterans' experiences in post-Vietnam America. Things are different now. The wars in Iraq …

Aims and method Drawing on empirical studies and literature reviews, this paper aims to
clarify and qualify the relevance of resilience to youth experiencing political conflict. It …

This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from
a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural …

Discusses the psychiatric diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Significance of
humanitarian institutions to the emergence of PTSD in the global arena; Comparison of …