strategy
Treating combat trauma
Synonyms:
Coping with war neurosisDealing with shell shock
Managing battle fatigue
Claim:
Rethinking the trauma of war means a shift away from projects targeted at individuals, or specific groups of victims, such as child soldiers or victims of rape, and toward community-based healing that incorporates justice, listening and rebuilding social structures that can renew meaning for living. Broader:
Relieving traumatic stressCorrecting nervous disordersRelieving resettlement stressCoping in conditions of inadequacy Facilitates:
Rehabilitating child soldiers Facilitated by:
Equipping mobile hospitalImproving health services following war Problems:
Combat traumaReferences:
Hansel, Sarah, Steidle, Ann, Zaczek, Grace and Zaczek, Ron: Soldier's Heart: Survivors' Views of Combat TraumaBracken, P and Petty, C: Rethinking the Trauma of War Subjects:
Medicine → PathologyHealth Care → Mental health
Defence → Conflict
Defence → War
Management → Management
Psychology → Stress
Technology → Metallurgy
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
