Sibylle Rothkegel, Berlin
Report on the implementation of a three week
consultancy in Sierra Leone First part of a
3-year program in »Trauma and Recovery« (TAR)
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Time: March 3-29, 2004 Location: Catholic Education Office,
Kingtom, Freetown, Sierra Leone Context: The Catholic Preschool
Education Program of Caritas International, Freiburg
Germany
Contents 1. Terms
of reference 2. Jointly developed topics for further training
modules 3. Supervision of individuals and groups in selected
preschools 4. 5 day training workshop 4.1 Content of the
training 4.2 Paper describing basic knowledge of TAR 4.3
Training methods 4.4 The interaction 5. Summary Plans for
the future
1. Terms of reference
The following tasks
were commended to the consultant: I. a) to determine the level
of knowledge of the preschool teachers b) to establish and
define the needs for training c) to discover the potential of
the heads of the preschools to train their preschool
teachers
II. a) to develop a plan (time/content) covering training,
counselling and supervision in cooperation with the heads of the
Catholic Education office, taking into account the results of the
evaluation of I.
III. Supervision of the teachers on how they can use the topics
of the training in their day to day work.
IV. 5-day workshop with the heads of preschools.
2. Jointly developed topics for further training
modules
This activity was carried out with the
participation of the heads of the Catholic Education Office,
Mrs. Bridget P. Sowa and Mrs. Ann-Marie Kandeh,
and was devoted to a detailed discussion of suggested
training modules to cover a period of three years. The emphasis
was on working through the guidelines considered most necessary
for enabling the participants to carry out their day to day
work. 1. Definition of trauma (trauma and war) 2. Working
with traumatised children: activities to be offered by preschool
teachers. 3. Helping parents to cope with the trauma: How can
parents be »child-friendly« in traumatic situations or in post war
difficulties? How to cope with their own fears and feeling of
being at risk of further trauma. 4. How to work with single
parents and adolescents affected by trauma and post-war
difficulties. 5. Dealing with loss, grief and bereavement 6.
How to break the cycle of violence 7. Healing for
teachers 8. Care for caregivers 9. Justice, peace and
reconciliation 10. Conflict transformation, trust building and
restorative justice 11. Empowering traumatised groups 12.
Training in peace building 13. How to do networking?
Networking with other peace building programs
These guidelines were established jointly in the first weeks of
my stay. They are to be further developed in three-week periods of
consultancy, supervision and workshops which will take place twice
a year over a total period of three years.
3. Supervision of individuals and groups in selected
preschools
Both individual and team supervision
were provided at the following preschools in the presence of Mrs.
Bridget P. Sowa and Mrs. Ann-Marie Kandeh: Stella
Maris, St. Luke's Marillac Community, St. Michael's, Rokupa Wharf
Community, St. Peter the Rock, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St.
Peter the Fisherman.
The case reports presented by the teachers showed clear
connections between the traumatic experiences of the children’s
families and the children’s current symptomatic behaviours. The
teachers are working under difficult conditions, including the
burden of their own traumatic stress reactions to experiences
during the war, the complicated demands of day to day coping,
large classes, small classrooms and little freedom of movement for
the children. I was impressed by how creatively and lovingly
the classrooms were decorated and equipped with the simplest of
materials. For instance, the children collected used bottle tops
from rubbish dumps to use them in learning the colours, and
discarded packaging materials were collected for use as teaching
materials and toys.
The teachers complained in particular that they not only had to
cope with the children’s post-traumatic symptoms, but that they
had also not received their salaries for several months. They also
said that they had several children in their classes who came to
school without any food, so that they had to ask the other
children to share, and that some parents were not even able to pay
the low school fees of roughly $3 per month.
I was surprised to discover that the degree of participation of
the parents and other family members varied from school to school
and in some cases there was none at all. As a result of this
experience I decided it was absolutely necessary to provide the
heads of the schools with guidelines. To this end I drew up a
paper detailing the points requiring consideration when working
with children and their family and social environments. This paper
I passed on to the heads of the Catholic Education Office. It is
currently in the possession of Mrs Sowa and Mrs Kandeh, who visit
the teachers regularly to provide supervision and organise further
training for them.
4. Five days
Training workshop
The training workshop was
devoted to the training of 36 school heads from all regions of
Sierra Leone. The group consisted entirely of women. It was
planned from March 6 - March 8, 2004 and it was carried out from
March 21 to March 26, 2004
The objectives were defined as follows: 1. to impart
knowledge about: a. the effects of traumatic experiences
on - individuals - families - children - post-war
societies - peace building
b) the principles of counselling traumatised children and their
families;
2. to enable participants to establish the significance of a
rich cultural heritage in order to make use of appropriate
cultural, religious and traditional methods in psychosocial care
delivery;
3. to practise recognizing the signs and symptoms of stress and
developing coping skills for stress management.
The methodology was defined as follows:
- presentations - group work - plenary discussions -
experience sharing - exercises - case studies -
supervision - using the creativity of the participants -
drawing - role playing
The day-to-day schedule can be obtained from the author.
4.1 Paper describing basic knowledge of
TAR
I compiled a paper giving definitions of terms used
in conveying basic knowledge of TAR and distributed it to the
participants.
TRAUMA (e.g.
wound)
Definition
"The person
experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events
that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a
threat to the physical integrity of self or others; the
person's response involved intense fear, helplessness or
horror."
Traumatic events
war trauma, civil
violence, physical injury, traumatic loss, bereavement, domestic
or family violence, childhood abuse; natural disasters,
technological and toxic disasters
Man made disasters
have long term consequences
mental, physical, social,
vulnerability lifelong; loss of trust in the self (self-esteem
and dignity) and in the »world« They cause problems in the
survivor's family.
The protective factors are related to individual coping
abilities, family unity and strength, strength of communities and
social networks and the ideological, political or religious
consciousness of the individual.
Frequency and
context
Under the conditions of war, the frequency of
traumatic events is characterised by the repetitive impact of
stress factors. These are experienced by the victims in a context
of threat, where fundamental human rights are violated
systematically and deliberately.
The traumatic
reactions
Traumatised people are not sick. Their
symptoms are a perfectly normal reaction to abnormal
experiences. Nevertheless traumatization places enormous
restrictions on individuals’ lives and possibilities of social
interaction, and represents a dangerous potential for instability
at the collective level. Stable houses cannot be built with the
hands of broken souls.
People exposed to direct war
trauma
People may develop mental problems after
experiencing violence in war. This group also includes all
refugees and displaced people. Some groups are especially
vulnerable: - children and adolescents; - amputees; -
female and male former child-soldiers; - children and
adolescents who are orphans; - children and adolescents whose
families have disintegrated (e.g. fathers or mothers have been
killed or tortured); - women who have been imprisoned by
combatants (rebels) or have witnessed or committed war
atrocities; - elderly people who have been raped or terrorised;
elderly people who have no support from their families or the
social or medical welfare systems.
The impact of war on
children
can include: loss of family and home, loss of
friends, loss of childhood innocence, loss of security and
trust. Under normal circumstances children depend on their
parents to provide their basic needs. Therefore the loss of family
and the home creates extreme difficulties for
children. Children become adults overnight and take on roles
for which they are not prepared. They feel a sense of betrayal
by adults and this creates feelings of insecurity and lack of
trust.
Post-war societies
Under post-war conditions
problems increase, e.g.: poverty, unemployment, domestic and
family violence, delinquency of adolescents, crimes, chronic
illness. This creates an atmosphere of insecurity, fear and stress
and can be an »ongoing trauma«. Alcohol and tranquillisers are the
drugs most commonly used in the attempt to reduce the resulting
anxiety. Especially vulnerable groups are:
soldiers/ex-combatants and former child-soldiers, for whom massive
abuse has been documented.
Post traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) is the most common
stress response in severe traumatisation. The core symptoms are:
various forms of re-experiencing the trauma (such as flashbacks
and nightmares); various forms of avoidance, detachment, memory
loss; psychic numbing, emotional numbing and behavioural changes;
manifestations of increased arousal of the autonomic nervous
system. The symptoms may vary significantly in terms of duration,
frequency and severity. Many persons manifest several other
symptoms such as anxiety, depression, dissociative phenomena,
personality changes, self destructive behaviour, guilt, anger and
fantasies of revenge, retaliation and somatic reactions based on
psychological problems.
Complex PTSD Prolonged or repeated trauma: the victims
may develop adaptive and defensive patterns of coping which
include forms of dissociation, somatisation, self-destructive
behaviours, and changes in personality functioning, ego-identity,
structure of self, ideological beliefs and values. In the context
of war both extreme and repeated traumatisation are a constant
threat due to the experience of repeated critical traumatic events
involving threat, injury, exposure to death, destruction, chaos
and human suffering. Main categories of symptoms:
hyper-arousal, intrusion and avoidance.
Explosive reactions to minor stimuli (trauma-like or
trauma-symbolic situations) The unresolved
trauma is often experienced and observed in the form of explosive
reactions, when an individual is exposed to situations that are
similar to or symbolise the original traumatic situation. The
emotional response exceeds what both the individual himself and an
observer may find appropriate in relation to the character of the
stimuli. Being alien to their personality and nature it is often
combined with an experience of a fear of going crazy. The
combination of these reactions and alcoholism and/or drug addition
may at least partly explain the increased involvement in violence
(criminal and domestic) seen in some traumatised
people.
Symptoms of traumatised children: Children fall in the group of the most
vulnerable. We find the following symptoms.
Pre-school
age (3-6 years): fear of everything, e.g.
dark places, separation from family members: clinging to them and
to educators, regressive behaviour, e.g. bedwetting, fear of strangers, crying and kicking,
timidity, stubbornness, disruptiveness, extension of anger to
toys, bed-wetting, sleep disorders, e.g. sleep-walking,
nightmares, eating disorders;
Pre-adolescence (6-12 years): day-dreaming, fears and feelings of revenge
and hopelessness dominate their lives, they prematurely assume
adult roles, show regressive behaviour and self destructiveness,
rebel against authority, abuse drugs.
Adolescence
(13-18): feelings of hopelessness,
aggression, depression and day-dreaming, short attention span,
lack of personal hygiene, drug abuse, delinquency, tendency to
commit suicide.
Children's stress reactions may become very severe if they
persist for a long time and the victim fails to receive
appropriate support from people around him or her. Children therefore need special attention to
be able rebuild their shattered lives.
Principles of
working with traumatised children: 0-6 years
Create a safe environment and build up
confidence, pay attention, listen to complaints and try to
solve them, do not be afraid to talk about the traumatic
event(s), watch closely for signs of re-enactment of trauma: in
play, drawing or behaviours, only give age-appropriate
information, always tell the truth in the language that is
understandable to them, show love and understanding, involve
children in all school activities, encourage them to play
together, encourage them to make friends, encourage them to
share with other children, ensure that they observe some rules
and regulations, discuss behavioural expectations with the
children, provide a variety of play materials, advise
parents / guardians to show love and understanding, advise
parents / guardians on good conditions for the child, encourage
them to vary the children’s diet, ensure that the children keep
to fixed mealtimes and seek medical advice to
sort out any medical problems.
Parental modelling of
recovery from trauma Parents’
modelling of effective coping behaviour can be a support for their
children. As parents are both sources of emotional support and
models of effective coping behaviour, their ability to recover
from the traumatic event has a massive impact on their children’s
coping.
Transgenerational impact of traumatic
stress Studies on
traumatic stress in the children and grand-children of Holocaust
survivors and the children of Vietnam veterans have revealed an
increase in traumatic stress disorders in the next generation. The
perception of the children and maybe even grand-children is
flavoured by the 'family memory' of the traumatic experiences of
the parents and maybe even grandparents. Transgenerational
aspects related to the emotional responses of the victims of war
in the countries of the former Yugoslavia (South-Eastern-Europe)
have proved to be clinically significant. Further studies on this
aspect may contribute to a new understanding of both the
development of conflicts and possible conflict resolutions under
war conditions. "What cannot be talked about, can also not
be put to rest; and if it is not, the wounds continue to fester
from generation to generation." Bettelheim, B.
(1984)
Support by a social environment Man-made disasters
shatter or even destroy feelings of safety and security in the
world and in the people. Disruption or loss of social support is
intimately associated with an inability to overcome the effects of
psychological trauma. Lack of support during traumatic experiences
may leave enduring marks on subsequent adjustment and
functioning. In both children and adults, lack of social
support following trauma heightens the sense of lost
security. Cultures which traditionally remain silent
about traumatic experiences and do not have adequate rituals for
dealing with relevant feelings of mourning, helplessness or rage
make it very difficult for its members to cope with the experience
within the community. Thus, problems may get worse if the problem
of avoidance which is inherent in the traumatic reaction is
transported to the social level, thus rendering it impossible to
process traumatic experiences constructively through
confrontation.
The role of culture regarding the
shaping and healing of trauma
The relevant cultural context forms the framework
for the interpretation of the trauma and the resulting symptoms
and provides specific coping resources as a kind of collective
coping strategy. This contributes partly to the variation in
symptoms between cultures and influences the degree of chronicity
of a disorder. In spite of worldwide observation that
posttraumatic reactions are similar, e.g. in refugees, we observe
that the ways in which this suffering is interpreted and how
individuals deal with it differ between cultures. It depends on
the respective culture whether healers, priests or friends are
called in or if one suffers in silence, or whether physicians,
psychologists or professional helpers are consulted. The same
applies in regard to whether the interpretations of the suffering
are more physical, more mental or more emotional. It is
particularly the general emotional and cognitive consequences,
such as the typical helplessness, sadness, rage and the loss of
basic trust that are experienced, interpreted and expressed
differently in each culture and therefore constitute
culture-inherent coping strategies.
4.2 Content of the training
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The training workshop was a very rich week of mutual work and
sharing different experiences. Together we worked out: a clear
definition of trauma, the events and their consequences for
individuals, families and children and established the importance
of social support is for survivors recovering from the effects of
traumatic experiences. Through the creativity of the
participants I learned about the rich variety of cultural,
religious and traditional methods they use as resources in coping
with trauma in Sierra Leone. Using role plays we did several
practical exercises in counselling sessions and group
supervision.
To start with we established a clear definition of trauma.
Initially the participants had equated trauma with frustration. It
was very important to them that while the symptoms of the mental
sequelae of trauma involve suffering, traumatised people are not
to be considered or treated as »crazy«, but that their symptoms
are a perfectly normal reaction to abnormal experiences. It
repeatedly became evident how strongly the participants were
affected by their own traumatic experiences during the war in
Sierra Leone. Sufficient space was therefore provided for
supporting participants in their own processes of coming to terms
with trauma and the theory was often combined with practical
experience.
A list of traumatic events was drawn up by the participants on
the basis of their experiences. They split up into four groups
according to their ethnic affiliations and each group presented a
role play of a traumatic event. The groups enacted the following
events: Mende: violent death of the (female) president of a
secret society Krio: bereavement Limbé: accident Timini:
broken home.
In my view these role plays were the climax of the workshop.
All the participants expressed their regret tht this part of the
workshop had not been recorded on video. The role plays
revealed the importance of rituals and social support for the
processing of traumatic experiences. In the role plays the
participants experienced how helpful fixed rules and rituals can
be in »crisis management« and that currently these resources are
not always perceived as such in the society of Sierra Leone as a
result of the sheer magnitude of the atrocities experienced in the
war. Drawing attention to the existing personal and social
resources of participants who have had such previous experiences
and are now teaching under such difficult conditions is thus an
important component of training on TAR.
To this end the fantasy image of »healthy islands« was also
selected as symbol in one module, working on the basis of a
principle of Gestalt therapy, according to which it is most
helpful to focus on existing potential rather than on deficits, in
this case the poverty and catastrophic conditions, etc. Various
counselling exercises were carried out with the participants,
using problems they encountered in their daily work as
examples.
Within the framework of the situational approach I concentrated
on identifying key problem situations with the teachers to
establish ways of dealing with them. It became clear that there
is a substantial need for further training in this area. I noted
that the participants apparently had substantial difficulty in
really taking time to attend to a problem that had been
described.
4.3 Training
methods
As the training programme is skill-based it
demands practical methods of teaching. Throughout the course
the following methods are used: Role plays are
considered the most important training tool for understanding and
learning the skills and concepts that form the foundations of
psychosocial counselling. At times »group role-plays« are
conducted, which entails one person being the client and all the
participants the counsellors, turn by turn. This method is useful
for obtaining an overview of all participants’ functioning, as
well as providing an opportunity for them to learn from each
other, especially as the role plays are discussed, either as they
are enacted or afterwards. For the same reasons, though with more
focus on individual performance, we conduct individual role plays
in front of the larger group (who are asked to be active
observers). Thirdly, at times the participants are asked to sit in
pairs to role-play with each other, with a third participant
taking the role of an observer. Group work is done
frequently as it activates individuals and stimulates general
discussion, which is especially useful in building on to existing
experience, knowledge or ideas. As a rule, group work promotes
brainstorming among participants, thus helping to clarify concepts
important to counselling. Lectures were used as little
as possible as I do not believe them to be the ideal method in a
training programme that focuses on learning skills. At the same
time, focused lectures are considered useful in introducing new
skills, concepts or theoretical frameworks. Generally, such topics
are explained through combining lectures and group work. I
asked the participants to do exercises for different reasons,
for example, to create awareness by exploring their experience as
service providers, or to provide examples by doing exercises that
focus on participants’ personal experiences or problems, to
revitalise attention by doing relaxation exercises or energisers
or to practise communication skills, or I asked the participants
to respond to a certain client statement with a relevant
communication skill.
4.4 The
interaction
The basis for interaction within the
group and between the group and myself was provided by a sense of
friendship and trust, a participatory working style and a common
spiritual foundation in Christian religion.
5. Summary
Sierra Leone is currently
struggling with the difficult conditions of a post-war society and
its associated problems, e.g. poverty, unemployment and domestic
violence and the health and psycho-social consequences of
traumatic experiences during the war. The teachers in the target
group at which our consultancy is aimed work in this field of
tension.
I am very impressed with what I learned about the preschool
programme of Caritas International/Freiburg. I consider it
extremely important since it offers educational interventions for
target groups in which it is possible to exert considerable
influence, i.e. in socially weak and previously disadvantaged
sections of the population. It thus provides these children with
structure in their daily lives and promotes their mental and
physical health at an early age. Their parents are involved in the
programme, thus reinforcing and supporting their competence and
parental authority. In view of the conditions that I am told were
responsible for starting the long civil war in Sierra Leone, i.e.
an unjust distribution of the available resources in the country,
this would seem to me to be particularly important for building up
and maintaining peace in the country. The objective of this
first part of the consultation programme was to establish the
level of knowledge and potential of the target group as
facilitators for training the teachers in their teams and thus to
establish and define the existing training needs. To achieve this
I considered it important to begin by determining the immediate
problems encountered by the teachers in their work from day to
day. This time I therefore scheduled the supervision in the
selected preschools at the beginning, also in order to be able to
use the insights I gained from it for the workshop in the third
week of my consultation visit and to orient it entirely towards
the needs of the target group.
The theory conveyed during the workshop was always linked to
the participants’ personal experience and also activated by means
of role plays and exercises. In the daily reflections and at the
final evaluation the participants mentioned that they found this
particularly useful in helping them learn. They explained that
this had made them feel that their professionality was respected
and that the practical exercises had helped them to integrate the
theory. The emotional atmosphere during the workshop was good,
and there was also much laughter, despite the serious subjects at
issue.
I would particularly like to mention the good support I
received from the project sponsor, the Catholic Education Office,
headed by Ms Moses S. Kailie. I found it most
fruitful and helpful to work together with Ms Bridget P. Sowa and
Ms Ann-Marie Kandeh. I would like to take this opportunity to
extend my heartfelt thanks to all three of them.
6. Plans for the future
The
»Trauma and Recovery« programme is to be spread out over a period
of three years, during which two three-week consultation visits
will be made to Sierra Leone each year. These visits are to be
made alternately by myself and my colleague Dr. David Becker. In
order to avoid the rainy season and the associated transport
problems, we consider it best as a rule to schedule our visits for
the months of March and September. Dr. David Becker will thus be
making the next visit in September of this
year.
All consultation visits and interventions will be agreed upon
with our colleagues at the Catholic Education Office in Freetown
and the needs expressed in the initial orientation phase as wishes
for the training module will be repeatedly re-examined and new
ones integrated where necessary.
The work on the conceptual links between the psychological and
educational dimensions of the problems should be continued and
further developed at future meetings.
Owing to the teachers’ personal histories of trauma, the
general conditions of work and the field of tension described
above, we shall repeatedly introduce elements of personal
self-experiencing work, processing of the participants’ own
traumatic experiences and stress management in our interventions
in order to counteract the risk of burnout and the need to deal
with it.
We would like to compile a training manual together with the
local participants which can then continue to be used by Caritas
staff in Sierra Leone in the future. As mentioned above, I
found that there was a substantial need for the development of
counselling skills. Exercises in which these can be practised will
continue to be oriented towards the participants’ own experience
and the problems with which they are currently faced. I consider
it useful and desirable also to record the work on video. The
videos produced should then be analysed by the entire group, as a
basis for discussing skills and process, and thus serve as an
observational learning skill.
We shall continue to offer supervision for the heads and
teachers of the preschools as a support for their work. At future
consultancy visits the supervision section will follow the
one-week training workshop, in order to support the group in
»using the topics of the training in their day-to-day work«. The
workshop participants and the staff of the Catholic Education
Office mentioned how important the provision of supervision and
counselling is in other parts of Sierra Leone. During future
visits we shall therefore also carry out the required
interventions in these regions.
We view our activities in the »Trauma and Recovery« programme
not only as imparting knowledge and providing consultancy
services, but also as promoting and sustaining peace, since
"what cannot be talked about, can also not be put to rest;
and if it is not, the wounds continue to fester from generation to
generation." Bettelheim, Bruno (1984).
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Short biographical note Sibylle Rothkegel was born in 1947, received her degree in psychology and trained as a Gestalt therapist. She has conducted individual and group therapy in private practice and worked in projects with Lebanese children and adolescents, with civil war refugees, in a rehabilitation home for girls (many of whom were victims of individual and/or sexual violence), and in a project for homeless young mothers. She has taught at the College for Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Berlin. Rothkegel began working at the Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims in 1994 and became the Center’s Assistant Director from 1996 until the end of 2001. She has been involved in work for "Coordination of Women’s Advocacy", an organization which supports female witnesses appearing before international courts, since 1995. Sibylle Rothkegel is now working in a private practice in Berlin and as a collaborator at OPSI consult (see below). Since August 2003 construction of a project for "expeditious psychological and psychotherapeutic help for victims of extreme right-wing, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic violence."
In spring 2002 she worked for the first time with traumatized war survivors in Sierra Leone ("Dienste in Übersee/Service Overseas"). She returned to Sierra Leone in spring this year.
Selected publications
Nichts ist mehr wie vorher: Psychische Folgen für Opfer rechtsextremer Gewalt. In: Opferperspektive - Beratung für Opfer rechtsextremer Gewalt in Brandenburg, e.V. (Hg.), Jahrbuch 2003. Potsdam, 2004, S. .. - ..
Zu gesundheitlichen Folgen der Ausbeutung und des Missbrauchs: Trauma. In: Zwischen Ausbeutung und Willen zur Selbstbestimmung. Ergebnisse der Internationalen VERA-Fachtagung "Frauenmigration. Zwischen Gewalt, Ausbeutung und Willen zur Selbstbestimmung" über Menschenhandel und Zwangsprostitution am 23./24.09.2003 in Magdeburg. o.O., 2003, S. - ..
- mit Friesa Fastie und Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Flüchtlingsfrauen und -mädchen in Deutschland und die Bedeutung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt in Asylverfahren. In: Friesa Fastie (Hg.): Opferschutz im Strafverfahren. Sozialpädagogische Prozessbegleitung bei Sexualdelikten. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 2002, S. 385-399.
The frozen lake.Gestalt therapy dreamwork with torture victims. In: Graessner, Sepp, Norbert Gurris, and Christian Pross (Eds.) At the side of torture survivors: treating a terrible assault on human dignity. Translated by Jeremiah Michael Riemer. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 95-111.
Traumakonzepte in nicht-europäischen Ländern. Ethnokulturelle Aspekte in der internationalen Traumaarbeit. In: Medica Mondiale (Hg.), Krieg, Geschlecht und Traumatisierung. Frankfurt, Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 1999, S. 149-159.
No place nowhere? In: Richter-Lyonette, E. (Ed.) In the aftermath of rape. Givrins, The Coordination of Women’s Advocay, 1997, pp. .. - ..
Counselling torture and trauma victims. In: Wülker-Wild, G. (Ed.): Mentally rebuilding Lebanon. Beirut: Goethe-Institute, 1995, pp.38-45.
Traumatization, Secondary Traumatization, debriefing. In: Wülker-Wild, G. (Ed.): Mentally rebuilding Lebanon. Beirut: Goethe-Institute, 1995, pp. 82-89.
Dipl.-Psych. Sibylle
Rothkegel Gestalttherapeutin, Psychologische
Psychotherapeutin Schaperstr. 20 10719
Berlin Germany
Phone +49 (30) 83 85 20 31
Fax. +49 (30) 83 85 21 30 Email sibrot@yahoo.de
and
Office of Psychosocial Issues
(OPSI) - Consulting, Development, Research Büro für
Psychosoziale Prozesse - Beratung, Entwicklung, Forschung c/o
Internationale Akademie für innovative Pädagogik, Psychologie
und Ökonomie GmbH (INA) an der Freien Universität
Berlin Königin Luise Str. 24-26 14195 Berlin Phone +49 (30) 83 85-20 31 Fax. +49 (30) 83 85-21 30 URL http://www.opsiconsult.com
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Citation Sibylle Rothkegel, Berlin, Report on the
implementation of a three week consultancy in Sierra Leone. First
part of a 3-year program in »Trauma and Recovery« (TAR). In:
TRN-Newsletter 2, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, June
2004.
URL http://www.TraumaResearch.net/net2/forum2/rothkegel.htm
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