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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791024303321

Autore

Overland Gwynyth

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6113-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

959.604

Soggetti

Political refugees - Cambodia

Resilience (Personality trait)

Cambodia History 1975-1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...