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Trauma and Healing

Trauma and Healing. Presented by David Niyonzima, MA Coordinator. What is a traumatic event?.

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Trauma and Healing

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  1. Trauma and Healing Presented by David Niyonzima, MA Coordinator

  2. What is a traumatic event? According to the DSM IV: “experiencing, witnessing, or being confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or the threat to the physical integrity of self or others.” A non-life-threatening event may become traumatic if it goes on too long, happens too frequently, or happens at an inappropriate age or to a person with limited coping skills.

  3. Examples of Trauma Human cruelty or extreme loss Childhood physical, mental and/or sexual abuse, or neglect Losses, deaths, separations, or abandonment by caregivers Witnessing violence Accidents, injuries, defects, invasive or painful medicalprocedures

  4. Need for Trauma Healing in Burundi Views of the Self from: invulnerability, goodness, happy future to: vulnerability, feeling out of control, bad, guilty, ashamed, weak, unworthy of a good life Views of the World from: The world is meaningful, fair, predictable, safe to: The world is confusing, unsafe, without a loving God. Views of Others from: People are good, trustworthy to: People are bad, exploitive. Nobody understands.

  5. Challenges in Burundi Very limited mental health system, lack of government support for mental health projects A population where everyone has been touched by violence Many thousands of refugees and displaced people No word in Kirundi for trauma

  6. Some observations Most of the people with whom we work have histories of being traumatized; they are either victims or perpetrators. Many of us also have histories of trauma “That which is to give light must endure burning” – Victor Frankl

  7. Responding to Trauma in Burundi Public education Trauma workshops Support groups Community involvement

  8. Listening Rooms A listener with a room/safe space. Networked into the community. Supervised by a psychotherapist.

  9. THARS Healing Process Active listening, empowerment Psychosocial activities: dances, cultural-get together opportunities, etc. Support groups and self-help initiatives Community involvement in healing

  10. T.H.A.R.S. Trauma Healing And Reconciliation Services restores hope and health Zones of intervention: 11 provinces, has 22 Listening Rooms in villages Programs include: -- Awareness raising and sensitization -- Trauma Healing and conflict transformation --Victims of torture psychosocial intervention -- Sexual violence rehabilitation Partners are: Search for Common Ground, Ligue Iteka, APRODH, TPO, UNICEF, CARE – Burundi and Swiss Cooperation, CICR.

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