Post traumatic survival : the lessons of Cambodian resilience / by Gwynyth Overland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overland, Gwynyth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political refugees--Cambodia.

Political refugees.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Cambodia--History--1975-1979.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some refugees who survive wars recover and thrive; others do not. This study sets out to discover what successful survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime found instrumental for both their survival and their mental health. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of resilience, here understood as the ability to recover from misfortune or change, in order to contribute to the psychosocial rehabilitation of survivors of war crimes and other traumatic events - to discover how war-refugees may be...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; ABSTRACT; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; GLOSSARY OF CRITICAL TERMS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; APPENDICES; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6113-8

OCLC:

881416907