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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Resilient Programs for Resilient Survivors written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current literature on the rehabilitation of torture survivors is largely focused on trauma and its negative sequelae. With the increasing recognition of the value of positive psychology during the past decade, the inclusion of the constructs of resilience and attachment may help to balance the current framework of the rehabilitation field. This qualitative study investigates evidence of resilience and attachment already existent within rehabilitation programs serving survivors of torture around the world. The Pathways to Resilience (P2R) Survey for Programs for Survivors of Torture was designed to obtain both a detailed description of common practices and components of such programs and to elicit evidence of resilience and attachment behaviors within the programs and between the programs and their partner organizations. The survey was completed by representatives from 6 programs located in 5 different regions of the world. A priori and grounded theory coding techniques were used to analyze responses to the survey's open-ended questions. Evidence emerged to support the hypothesis that rehabilitation programs demonstrate the four general factors of resilience (social support, making meaning, regulating emotions, creative coping) as well as attachment behaviors reflecting the safety and exploration components of the Circle of Security© (within the programs themselves and between programs/organizations). A more intentional adoption of the theoretical constructs of resilience and attachment by the rehabilitation field is proposed.