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Narrative healing among victims of violence: the impact of the Greensboro truth and reconciliation commission. |
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Families in Society, 93(1), January-March 2012, pp.38-46. |
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1044-3894 |
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Narrative interventions are being increasingly incorporated into social work practice, and are often applied to victims of violence. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) are interventions that seek to provide victims of violence with opportunities for healing and validation through a narrative process. In a qualitative study of the first TRC in the United States, the Greensboro TRC (GTRC) in North Carolina, this research examined the impact of giving testimony to GTRC on 17 victims of the 1979 incident of racial violence. Most victims reported positive healing and validating experiences from their participation in the intervention. Overall, articulating trauma benefited the victims. The authors concluded that TRCs can provide victims a structured and safe space to share their stories and facilitate healing and public validation of their traumas. Implications for practice are discussed. |
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adults; group therapy; racism; reminiscence therapy; traumas; violence; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=32e2845f-8713-4515-9cb2-d92cd1f5d0c2 |
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