Conflict, peace and mental health : a case study from Northern Ireland on addressing trauma and loss / David Bolton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolton, David (Trauma expert), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of terrorism--Services for--Northern Ireland--Omagh.

Victims of terrorism.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment--Northern Ireland--Omagh.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Bombings--Northern Ireland--Omagh.

Bombings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

David Bolton is a trauma researcher, writer and practitioner. He trained as a social worker in Belfast from 1974 to 1978, during some of the worst years of the civil conflict. At the time of the Omagh bombing of 1998 he coordinated the immediate and longer-term responses of community services, including establishing the Omagh Community Trauma and Recovery Team. In 2002 he became the founding director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, which closed in 2011. He lives in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.

Summary:

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

Contents:

Preface to the second edition

Introduction

1. The Omagh bombing and the community's response

2. The Omagh Community Trauma and Recovery Team

3. Assessing the mental-health impact of the Omagh bombing

4. The mental-health impact of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 1969-99

5. The mental-health impact of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 2000-15

6. The Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation: a comprehensive trauma centre

7. The development of a trauma-focused therapy programme

8. Trauma-focused skills training for practitioners

9. Research, advocacy and policy support

10. Developments in responding to the needs of victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland

11. From conflict management to conflict transformation: progress in Northern Ireland since 2017

12. Rethinking how to address the needs of the victims of conflict and to build the post-conflict community

Postscript: the rupture of loss and trauma

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Bolton, David Conflict, Peace and Mental Health

ISBN:

9781526190505

OCLC:

1548660869