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Year : 2005 | Volume
: 3 | Issue : 1 | Page : 51--56
Trauma Awareness, Healing and Group Counselling in Secondary Schools
Judith Olij
working since 1998 as a Technical Adviser, in the war-torn Great Lake Region in Central Africa: Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda for local and international NGO’s; with victims of genocide, war or natural disasters. She is currently working with the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims in Kampala, Uganda
Correspondence Address:
Ten years after war and genocide in Rwanda took almost a million lives; trauma still exists on a large scale. This is especially true amongst adolescents where it hampers the process of reconciliation. As a result, crisis outbreaks frequently occur at secondary schools. In this article, an intervention for secondary schools is described that promotes trauma awareness and healing within a school environment. This intervention appears to succeed in preventing trauma crisis: in the four schools covered by the project, no crisis took place. It also accelerated the process of reconciliation amongst the students from different ethnic groups: they were able to commemorate and mourn together with dignity.
How to cite this article:
Olij J. Trauma Awareness, Healing and Group Counselling in Secondary Schools.Intervention 2005;3:51-56
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How to cite this URL:
Olij J. Trauma Awareness, Healing and Group Counselling in Secondary Schools. Intervention [serial online] 2005 [cited 2023 May 30 ];3:51-56
Available from: http://www.interventionjournal.org//article.asp?issn=1571-8883;year=2005;volume=3;issue=1;spage=51;epage=56;aulast=Olij;type=0 |
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