Identity, Conflict, and the Experience of Trauma: The Social Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Political Violence

Restoring Civil Societies: The Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Crisis

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 208-221

  Muldoon, Orla T ^a   Lowe, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict and political violence, likelihood of experience; Group membership, on individuals exposed to conflict; Group processes, in occurrences of traumatic symptomology; Identity, conflict, and trauma, social psychology of intervention; Political conflicts, struggles over territory power resources; Political violence, dangers to democracy civil society; Political violence, identity taking on substantive meanings; PTSD classification in the DSM, 1980, focus psychiatric; Reconstruction of social identity in conflict; Social support and reintegration post conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886162788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118347683.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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