Overview
Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the field of torture rehabilitation has grown rapidly. A growing awareness about the practices of torture (more than 100 countries today practice government sanctioned torture) and its effects on victims is leading to an increasing number of treatment centers staffed by health care professionals who need the best, most up-to-date information and advice they can get. This book delivers it. - Caring for Victims of Torture contains all the collective wisdom of some of the most respected international experts - all distinguished doctors - in governmental torture, including pioneers in the field of traumatic stress. Contributors cover the most recent advances in the field of government-sanctioned torture and offer practical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims. Organized into five main sections, this annotated volume provides: guidance on identifying and defining the sequelae of torture; a framework for assessment and treatment; specific treatment interventions; and a discussion of ethical implications. In the final section, physicians working in the field offer first-hand accounts and address how they are trying to balance politics with care-giving.
Full Product Details
Author: James M. Jaranson ,
Michael K. Popkin
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780880487740
ISBN 10: 0880487747
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 September 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
<p> [T]he overall coverage and topicality are commendable, and indeed some of the more clinical chapters will be found most useful by any professional dealing with this problem. I would like to see this well produced volume in the libraries of all those in this very challenging field. -- Behaviour Research & Therapy
This book is a welcome addition to the field of torture and trauma rehabilitation. It enables health care workers and physicians from a range of disciplines to understand the complexities of working with this population group at the individual, family, and community levels. It enables emerging practitioners to update their knowledge quickly and directs them to the skills required to be competent in this field. The book addresses questions and issues of relevance to the torture rehabilitation and trauma rehabilitation industry itself, enabling discussion and review of current clinical and service development approaches and political issues within the movement itself. It proposes the need for an openness and collaboration between medical and scientific approaches and alternative community-based and group work approaches. I highly recommend this volume not only for practitioners but also for medical students, psychotherapists, health workers, and other health professionals interested in moving into this field. -- Margaret Cunningham, .S.W., Churchill Fellow, Lecturer, School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
[T]he overall coverage and topicality are commendable, and indeed some of the more clinical chapters will be found most useful by any professional dealing with this problem. I would like to see this well produced volume in the libraries of all those in this very challenging field. - Behaviour Research & Therapy
Author Information
James M. Jaranson, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., is Director of Medical Services and Research, Center for Victims of Torture, in Minneapolis, and founder of the International Mental Health Program in the Psychiatry Department of St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center (now Regions Hospital) in St. Paul. He is also Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, and Director of the Cultural Psychiatry Training Program. He was a faculty member of the University of Minnesota Refugee Mental Health Technical Assistance Center, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He is a member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. His academic background includes an M.D., an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Minnesota, a master's degree in Public Health from Harvard University, specializing in psychiatric epidemiology, and board certifications in both psychiatry and general preventive medicine. Michael K. Popkin, M.D., is Chief of Psychiatry at the Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, and Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Popkin was a member of the Minnesota Governor�s Task Force that advocated the development of the Center for Victims of Torture, and he served on the Center�s Board of Directors from its 1985 inception to 1989. Dr. Popkin is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago Pritzker Medical School. He interned at Bellevue-NYU Hospitals and received his psychiatric training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is past President of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, has been Vice-Chair of the DSM-IV Organic Disorders work group, and was Chair of the NIMH Mental Health Services Research Review Committee. He reviews for more than a dozen medical journals and has written more than 120 papers and chapters on a range of topics dealing with the interface of psychiatry and medicine.
