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Title Mending the Levee: How Supernaturally Anchored Conceptions of the Person Impact on Trauma Perception and Healing among Children (cases from Madagascar and Nepal).
Full text http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/340337
Date 2016
Author(s) Evers, Sandra; van der Brug, Nienke; van Wesel, F.; krabbendam, Lydia
Abstract When dealing with children and youth who experience distressing events, psychosocial diagnostics and healing programmes principally resort to biomedical models. Children are often viewed as individualised 'victims' suffering from trauma and 'in need' of outside help. Highlighting case studies from Madagascar and Nepal, this article argues that the biomedical approach to trauma would be strengthened by a concomitant analysis of social networks, including the perceived relations with the supernatural. The various tandems of family and kin relationships, the living and the dead, constitute not only a social 'levee' breached by distressing events, but also the locus around which social relations are rebuilt.
Subject(s) children and post-traumatic stress; holistic cosmologies; interdisciplinary treatmentstrategies; resilience; social networks and children; trauma intervention
Language en
Type of publication Article
Format text/plain
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/ClosedAccess
Identifier Children & Society (Blackwell) 30(16), 423-433 (2016)
Repository Utrecht - University of Utrecht
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