Trauma and Human Rights: Integrating Approaches to Address Human SufferingLisa D. Butler, Filomena M. Critelli, Janice Carello Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims’ experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the development and current status of each of these frameworks, examining traumatic experiences and human rights violations across a range of populations and describing efforts to remediate them. Individual chapters address these topics among Native Americans, African Americans, children, women, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender individuals, those with mental disabilities, refugees and asylees, and older adults, and also in the context of social policy and truth and reconciliation commissions. The authors demonstrate that the trauma and human rights frameworks each contribute invaluable and complementary insights, and that their integration can help us fully appreciate and address human suffering at both individual and collective levels. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Moving Toward TraumaInformed and Human RightsBased Social Policy The Role of the Helping Professions | 54 |
Chapter 4 Enhancing Indigenous WellBeing Applying Human Rights and TraumaInformed Perspectives with Native Americans | 75 |
Chapter 5 Black Trauma in the US and the Pursuit of Human Rights A Brief History | 99 |
Chapter 6 Childrens Experiences of Trauma and Human Rights Violations Around the World | 125 |
Chapter 7 Women Trauma and Human Rights | 151 |
Chapter 8 The Lives of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender People A TraumaInformed and Human Rights Perspective | 178 |
Chapter 9 Mental Disability Trauma and Human Rights | 207 |
Chapter 10 Refugees and Asylum Seekers | 221 |
Chapter 11 The Interrelationship Between Aging Trauma and the End of Life | 241 |
Chapter 12 Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Human Rights and Trauma | 265 |
Chapter 13 Afterword Human Rights and the Science of Suffering | 287 |
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