Women Trauma Survivors Of The Rwandan Genocide: A Seven Week Group Building Exercise

Keywords

Group work; Groupwork; PTSD; Rwandan genocide; Survivors; Trauma; Women

Abstract

The article highlights the need for a support community group for women who survived the Rwandan Genocide, and who are completing groupwork for Post traumatic Stress Disorder. The authors review practice literature, discuss specific strategies for adult women, many of whom had been children during the genocide, and introduce a seven-week group experience that leads to development of a community of survivors. The seven-week group incorporates a Rites of Passage in association with a spirituality framework. The authors incorporate Rwandan cultural practices familiar to women who had lived in the country prior to the genocide.

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Groupwork

Volume

27

Issue

1

Number of Pages

49-65

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

85048377598 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85048377598

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