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Vicarious resilience: a new concept in work with those who survive trauma
- Authors:
- HERNANDEZ Pilar, GANGSEI David, ENGSTROM David
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 46(2), June 2007, pp.229-241.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study explores the formulation of a new concept: vicarious resilience. It addresses the question of how psychotherapists who work with survivors of political violence or kidnapping are affected by their clients' stories of resilience. It focuses on the psychotherapists' interpretations of their clients' stories, and how they make sense of the impact that these stories have had on their lives. In semi structured interviews, 12 psychotherapists who work with victims of political violence and kidnapping were interviewed about their perceptions of their clients' overcoming of adversity. A phenomenological analysis of the transcripts was used to describe the themes that speak about the effects of witnessing how clients cope constructively with adversity. These themes are discussed to advance the concept of vicarious resilience and how it can contribute to sustaining and empowering trauma therapists.
Identity and trauma in adolescents within the context of political violence: a psychosocial and communitarian view
- Author:
- PEREZ-SALES Pau
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 38(4), December 2010, pp.408-417.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The author explores the concept of identity as a frame of analysis in adolescents responding to experiences of trauma. The author looks into numerous themes including the impact of broken identities, different ways of understanding the victim identity, the identities of trauma, the role of transitions, as well as identity dilemmas. By examining the experience of young Mapuche in South America, the experience of war and political violence in Mexico and el Salvador, the identity of displaced young people in Colombia, and a multilevel analysis of child suicides among the Embera ethnic group in Choco, Colombia, a psychosocial and communitarian analysis of the impact of violence and war on youth is offered.