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In diesem Artikel wird die Wichtigkeit und zentrale Bedeutung der Reflexion eigener motivationaler Anteile im therapeutischen Umgang mit politisch verfolgten Menschen und deren Kindern thematisiert. Die Autorin verdeutlicht dies an Aussagen von im Rahmen einer größeren Studie interviewten Therapeut(inn)en und am Beispiel der Involviertheit der eigenen Person in diesen Forschungsprozeß.

Nearly 40% of the refugees arriving in Germany suffer from psychological traumatization. After initial accommodation in reception centers, German legislation requires that all refugees undergo a medical visual examination (MVE) to screen for infectious diseases. This examination is, in part, conducted by volunteering medical doctors. The present study aimed to analyze volunteering medical doctors' motivation for performing MVE, their connected experiences, and their psychological strain in a reception center. In this context, the emergence of secondary traumatic stress, vicarious traumatization, and the need for psychological support were explored. Semistandardized interviews were conducted with 18 medical doctors after they had performed MVE. Interview recordings were transcribed and subsequently underwent qualitative thematic analysis. Finally, thematic clusters were identified. The analysis revealed 512 relevant single codes, from which three main categories were derived. These ranged from private motives for volunteering to perform MVEs in a reception center setting, to thoughts and feelings after performing the examination, and the need for psychosocial support. After having performed MVE, some of the doctors displayed cognitive alterations, which can be an indication of vicarious traumatization. Most participants felt motivated to reflect on their personal beliefs and their moral concepts.

Previous research on the impact of traumatic experiences in children and adolescents has focused almost entirely on the effect of single trauma. Research on cumulative traumas has been lacking, but Finkelhor (Child Abuse Negl 31:7–26, 2007) has recently directed the attention to the concept of polyvictimization. As an extension of this concept, this study examined the impact of polytraumatization, operationalized as the number of different potentially traumatic events. The study population comprised two cross-sectional samples of school-aged children (n = 270) and adolescents (n = 400). Information of life-time incidence of traumatic events was collected by the life incidence of traumatic events (LITE), and psychological symptoms by the parent version of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) for the school children and the self-report trauma symptom checklist for children (TSCC) for the adolescents. We found that exposure to at least one traumatic event was common in both the samples (63% of the children and 89.5% of the adolescents). The number of different traumatic events, polytraumatization, was highly predictive of symptoms in both samples, and with a few exceptions surpassed the impact of specific events in exploratory analyses. We furthermore replicated previous findings of the important impact of interpersonal over non-interpersonal events on symptoms in both samples, and found an indication that this effect differed by gender in different manners in the two samples. This study emphasizes the significance of both the quantity of traumatic events, polytraumatization, as well as the quality, interpersonal events.

The original framework used by McCann and Pearlman, 1990 was reviewed for relevance by 22 counsellors registered as trauma therapists in New Zealand. As predicted by the vicarious traumatization theory, the counsellors who were interviewed were profoundly impacted by their work with trauma survivors, particularly within the first five years of practice. The experience of vicarious traumatization generated a search for meaning which enabled the counselors to evolve strategies and ways of being that effectively fostered personal and professional resilience. This immersion in trauma, paradoxically, enhanced the participants' ability to `bounce back' or buffer the more negative effects of the work. Clinical supervision, the use of support, humour, spirituality, and ongoing training were variables identified by the participants as ameliorating vicarious traumatization.

On the basis of refugee children from Bosnia-Herzegovina living in Germany this volume shows how traumatizations stemming from war and other sociopolitical factors can reinforce each other.Despite multiple stresses experienced in war zones, refugee children seldom show obvious psychological consequences or behavioural abnormalities; rather, they often appear to be well adjusted in their new homeland. The psychologist Ilka Lennertz combines approaches from trauma and attachment research to study how one can detect hidden traumatization processes in such children. It becomes clear that the developmental processes of these children are shaped by their own experiences and those of their parents as well as by the sociopolitical situation and their status as foreign refugees. This study also looks at the way in which traumatization is worked through by children and how one can best support them in this process.

Many children become disabled during their entire lives (Alisic et al., 2014; Cohen, 2009; Draper, 2007). The historic UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by almost all the governments of the world, states that all children have the right to a safe environment and to protection from injury. The traumatic situation has several psychological factors contributing to the injury and to the characteristic consequences (Shi, 2015). These factors relate to the children's living conditions and social situations in which children participate (Bonander, 2017; Gregorovski, 2013; Loeb et al., 2011). The aim of the research is to reveal micro-social factors which lead to re-injuries in children aged 5–10: peculiarities of (pseudo) hyperactivity disorders, interaction between adults who are taking care of the children, daily traditions in families of injured children. Research methods and participants. The research sample (n=350) was drawn from the general population in Russia. The youngest participant was 5 years old and the oldest was 10. Research was conducted in Tyumen, Russia, Regional Clinical Hospitals, schools, and kindergartens in 2016–2019. Conclusions. True hyperactivity disorders were revealed in no more than 5% of children. Thus, here we deal with pseudo-hyperactivity. To reduce the risk of injury in children it is necessary to differentiate between two types of pathogenic factors influencing trauma: minimal brain dysfunction in children (biological) and parental behavior (social).

Purpose:Supervision is an essential part of social work education. Accordingly, supervision satisfaction plays an important role in the development of the students' professional identity. However, the factors contributing to supervision satisfaction among social work students have rarely been examined. This study examined the contribution of supervision components, peer support, secondary traumatization, and vicarious post-traumatic growth (VPTG) to supervision satisfaction.Method:Self-report questionnaires were distributed to 259 undergraduate social work students. Correlation and hierarchical linear regression analyses were performed.Results:Higher supervision satisfaction was predicted by the educational and supportive components of supervision, peer support, and VPTG, whereas the administrative component of supervision satisfaction and secondary traumatization predicted lower supervision satisfaction.Discussion:The findings highlight the negative ramifications of secondary traumatization and the positive contribution that supportive and educational supervision, peer support, and VPTG can have on social work students' supervision satisfaction. Practical implications for practice and policy are discussed.

A review of the literature on the health of nurses leaves little doubt that their work may take a toll on their psychosocial and physical health and well being.Nurses working in several specialty practice areas, such as intensive care, mental health, paediatrics, and oncology have been found to be particularly vulnerable to work-related stress. Several types of occupational stress have been identified, including burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. While the emphasis of this article is on compassion fatigue and its theoretical conceptualization, the concepts of burnout and vicarious traumatization are also discussed. Two questions are posed for discussion: 1) Does compassion fatigue exist on a continuum of occupational stress? If so, is burnout a pre-condition for compassion fatigue; 2) What are the relationships between the types of occupational stress? To what extent does non-resolution of compassion fatigue increase the risk for developing vicarious traumatization? Case examples are provided to support this discussion.

This paper analyzes the representation of women in an independent theatre production on the war in Iraq titled Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016). The play is written and performed solo by James Allen Moad II, a former Air Force pilot. It is divided into three acts, each one telling independent stories to reflect the trauma of war and its long-term consequences in war veterans and their family members at home. The three stories are set around the city of Paducah, Kentucky, located between the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and take place during the summer of 2007. Each features a male character: a boy whose father returns from Iraq with a brain injury, a father whose son from the Marines committed suicide, and a former soldier on a visit to his hometown after returning from the war zone in Baghdad. By focusing on the role of female civilians in Moad's play, the paper will illustrate how post-war damage, treatment, and representation are primarily male-related. The equally damaged women's voices and their perspectives, whether they are civilians or members of the military, remain in the background. Their silence, therefore, fills the space of the not-said and the not-seen.

The article presents modern approaches to understanding the problem of psychological traumatization of servicemen. Possible mechanisms underlying psychic and somatic disorders caused by stress are considered. The place of psychological trauma in different directions of modern psychology is studied.Introduction . In the conditions of confrontation which proceeds in the East of our country, year after year the amount of military men is increased who were attracted to anti-terrorist operation, and hereinafter to operation of united forces and participated in fight actions. As it is known, are the main reaction of the military man to fighting events fighting stress.In conditions, when fighting stress becomes traumatic, signs of psychological traumatization emerge and efficiency of performance of tasks to destination decreases, and in some cases - impossibility to continue to carry out fighting taskss. What by the content in psychology "psychological injury" is given of the concept , the appropriate specialists more opportunity is granted. In the first, to suit more effectively to the question of prophylaxis and prevention of psychological traumatization among staff.Secondly, to lower indications of her signs in the case of their presence. So, the question of understanding of substance psychological traumatization among military men with fighting experience, for today, is extremely important and urgent.Purpose. To conduct a theoretical research of scientific approaches regarding understanding of psychological injury in various directions of psychology.Methods. Theoretical analysis of scientific sources on given problem.Results. Held theoretical analysis of references allowed to find out substance of the concept of psychological injury, to define place of psychological traumatization in various directions of modern psychology.Originality. Definition of the place and understanding of psychological injury in various directions a modern psychology enables to improve activity on prophylaxis and prevention of the consequences of traumatic stress, as well as to work more effectively with indications of psychological traumatization.Conclusion. Of psychological traumatization it is expedient to say in cases, when investigation of traumatic stress event become infringement in mental domain of the person similarly to infringements in somatic processes. Рast trauma is not an external event, and her mental representation. However, on the grounds of presence of one or another events, even if for the most of people they can turn out injuring, it is impossible to say that given person will necessarily receive a psychological injury. Perspectives of further researches can be proposal on perfecting of events on prophylaxis of psychological traumatization military men. ; В статье представлены современные подходы к пониманию проблемы психологической травматизации военнослужащих. Рассмотрены возможные механизмы, лежащие в основе психических и соматических нарушений, вызванных стрессом Изучены место психологической травмы в различных направлениях современной психологии.По результатам теоретического анализа научной литературы, психологическая травматизация имеет место в случаях, когда следствием травматического стрессового события становятся нарушения в психической сфере человека аналогично нарушениям в соматических процессах. Психотравма ‒ это не внешнее событие, а его психическая репрезентация. ; У статті представлено сучасні підходи до розуміння проблеми психологічної травматизації військовослужбовців. Розглянуто можливі механізми, що лежать в основі психічних і соматичних порушень, викликаних стресом Вивчено місце психологічної травми в різних напрямках сучасної психології.

The article presents modern approaches to understanding the problem of psychological traumatization of servicemen. Possible mechanisms underlying psychic and somatic disorders caused by stress are considered. The place of psychological trauma in different directions of modern psychology is studied.Introduction . In the conditions of confrontation which proceeds in the East of our country, year after year the amount of military men is increased who were attracted to anti-terrorist operation, and hereinafter to operation of united forces and participated in fight actions. As it is known, are the main reaction of the military man to fighting events fighting stress.In conditions, when fighting stress becomes traumatic, signs of psychological traumatization emerge and efficiency of performance of tasks to destination decreases, and in some cases - impossibility to continue to carry out fighting taskss. What by the content in psychology "psychological injury" is given of the concept , the appropriate specialists more opportunity is granted. In the first, to suit more effectively to the question of prophylaxis and prevention of psychological traumatization among staff.Secondly, to lower indications of her signs in the case of their presence. So, the question of understanding of substance psychological traumatization among military men with fighting experience, for today, is extremely important and urgent.Purpose. To conduct a theoretical research of scientific approaches regarding understanding of psychological injury in various directions of psychology.Methods. Theoretical analysis of scientific sources on given problem.Results. Held theoretical analysis of references allowed to find out substance of the concept of psychological injury, to define place of psychological traumatization in various directions of modern psychology.Originality. Definition of the place and understanding of psychological injury in various directions a modern psychology enables to improve activity on prophylaxis and prevention of the consequences of traumatic stress, as well as to work more effectively with indications of psychological traumatization.Conclusion. Of psychological traumatization it is expedient to say in cases, when investigation of traumatic stress event become infringement in mental domain of the person similarly to infringements in somatic processes. Рast trauma is not an external event, and her mental representation. However, on the grounds of presence of one or another events, even if for the most of people they can turn out injuring, it is impossible to say that given person will necessarily receive a psychological injury. Perspectives of further researches can be proposal on perfecting of events on prophylaxis of psychological traumatization military men. ; В статье представлены современные подходы к пониманию проблемы психологической травматизации военнослужащих. Рассмотрены возможные механизмы, лежащие в основе психических и соматических нарушений, вызванных стрессом Изучены место психологической травмы в различных направлениях современной психологии.По результатам теоретического анализа научной литературы, психологическая травматизация имеет место в случаях, когда следствием травматического стрессового события становятся нарушения в психической сфере человека аналогично нарушениям в соматических процессах. Психотравма ‒ это не внешнее событие, а его психическая репрезентация. ; У статті представлено сучасні підходи до розуміння проблеми психологічної травматизації військовослужбовців. Розглянуто можливі механізми, що лежать в основі психічних і соматичних порушень, викликаних стресом Вивчено місце психологічної травми в різних напрямках сучасної психології.

The essays collected in this volume address a wide spectrum of issues connected to traumatic events and experiences, be they of personal, collective, national or global scale. They are complemented by poetic contemplations on trauma, which set the tone for the following scholarly investigations. The thematic scope of the collection encompasses psychological, sociological and political approaches to trauma, examples of ethnic and indigenous traumatizations, literary, cultural and visual manifestations of trauma or the medialization of trauma in the museum. As a result of the comparative, and in some cases cross-hermeneutic, design of the volume with German scholars looking at Canadian and Canadian scholars looking at German/European examples of traumatization, transatlantic perspectives on the problems at stake are opened. (DIPF/Orig.)

This paper is a philosophical meta-discussion of the current culture in
psychiatry and psychotherapy that focuses on trauma as the source and
predominant determinant of a large number of psychiatric complaints. Such a
culture leads to increasing, rather the decreasing, the destructive role of
traumatization and victimization throughout the life experiences of those
affected, and (as culture) is exemplified by increasing calls by influential
psychiatrists to expand the interpretative role of trauma to virtually all
our experiences of social inadequacy and personal hurt. We argue here, from
a philosophical and psychiatric point of view, that the transactions,
semantics and affects that psychiatry and psychotherapy are concerned with
in cases of trauma and victimhood are negatively affected by the culture of
using trauma as an alibi and a kind of universal explanation of
psychological dysfunctionality and suffering. We also argue that, contrary
to the current culture of a sort of idolatry of trauma, more consistent and
philosophically informed approaches to psychiatric and psychotherapeutic
intervention, based on a different interpretation of less-than-radically
adverse life experiences, might in fact reduce both the clinical occurrence
of traumatization and the actual adverse impact of self-perceived
victimization and traumatization on the prospects for achieving the goal of
?the good life?.

The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter's discussion offers a critical reflection on historical trauma and its repercussions, and how memory can be used as a basis for dialogue and transformation. The perspectives include, among others: the healing journey of three generations of a family of Holocaust survivors and their dialogue with third generation German students over time; traumatic memories of the British concentration camps in South Africa; reparations and reconciliation in the context of the historical trauma of Aboriginal Australians; and the use of the arts as a strategy of dialogue and transformation.

The research is aimed to studying features of self-injurious behaviour in adolescence and youth. This purpose makes us analyse such characteristics as self-attitude, coping behaviour, cases of psychological traumatization, deviant socialization and self-injurious behavior. Three types of self-injurious behavior: a deviant, a prosocial and a personality-dysfunctional one are defined.