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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"torture survivors"”.
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Factor Structure of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Torture Survivors
… & Silove, 2004). Participants were international torture survivors who sought psychological treatment from a torture rehabilitation center in the United States. It was hypothesized that the factor structure of posttraumatic stress reactions among this heterogeneous sample of torture survivors …
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Assessing rehabilitation of torture survivors through a gendered lens: a review of empirical and expert perspectives
Torture is a distinctly horrific human rights violation, which leaves survivors with an acute need for rehabilitation as a form of reparation. However, the state of knowledge around torture rehabilitation suffers from a knowledge gap around how gender influences the impact of torture and …
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Daily occupations among asylum seekers- Experience, performance and perception
… than the background population. Especially torture survivors suffer from ill health. Pain and psychological symptoms are among the most frequent health issues for both asylum seekers and torture survivors and may cause occupation-related problems. The overarching aim of this thesis was to …
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The potential of epigenetic methods to provide evidence of torture
… a transition from brutal forms of physi- cal torture to other physical and psychological methods that do not leave marks on the body. Providing evidence of these types of torture is often a challenge. Finding biological markers of torture would potentially contribute to solve this …
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Body, voice, memory: Modern Latin American women's testimonios
… shows how long-lasting the scars left on female torture survivors can be. Murat’s filmic language is both documentary and creative in ways that relate it both to Domitila Barrios de Chungara and to Julia Alvarez. Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) casts testimonial …
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A psychological sense of community as experienced among immigrant survivors of torture
Survivors of torture do not merely overcome the challenges posed by torture in order to develop a psychological sense of community among each other. Participants in this study used the understanding of torture and the unequivocal condemnation of it as a boundary within which they could develop …