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Peer reviewedHanscom, Karen L. – American Psychologist, 2001
Proposes a mental health treatment model for survivors of torture and war trauma, presenting principles underlying such treatment and a developmental view of such abuse. Describes a Guatemalan project that uses the model to train village women to treat survivors in their communities and a U.S. torture treatment program that treats survivors…
Descriptors: Awards, Civil Liberties, Coping, Foreign Countries
