Community Trauma Healing—Theory and Practice

Ngwenya, Dumisani

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66818-5_4

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“…Outside of the United States, descriptions of community healing efforts after widespread violence or conflict show that elements central to CoT (e.g., safety, trust, truth‐telling, and restoring connection to community) feature prominently in reconciliation or restorative justice approaches (Ngwenya, 2018). Further, communalizing trauma has been suggested as useful for different traumatized populations, including peacekeepers (Ray, 2009b), prisoners of war (Stein et al, 2015), and children impacted by conflict (Mercer, 2015).…”

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Processes and outcomes of a communalization of trauma approach: Vets & Friends community‐based support groups

Balmer

Sippola²,

Beehler

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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Veterans often experience challenges related to processing traumatic experiences and community reintegration, yet there is a dearth of research on promising community‐driven approaches. This paper describes core processes and outcomes of Vets & Friends (V&F), a community‐based support program that promotes veteran reintegration by healing trauma and moral injury using a communalization of trauma (CoT) approach. We conducted focus groups with 23 V&F group members. A mix of inductive and deductive codes were generated during thematic analysis. Critical themes identified included processes such as sharing narratives, connecting emotionally with experiences, feeling heard and accepted by group members, and listening as others shared their experiences. Outcomes included restoration of trust, connection with group members, building skills to manage trauma, and community acceptance and engagement. V&F shows promise in meeting veteran‐specific needs by employing CoT approaches that offer opportunities to restore community trust and acceptance.

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Processes and outcomes of a communalization of trauma approach: Vets & Friends community‐based support groups

Balmer

Sippola²,

Beehler

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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The Psychology of Inclusion on New Media Platforms and the Online Communication

Zelena

2020

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio

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Following the tabooistic and rejective attitude of the 20th century, in the processing and announcement method of the 21st century, there is is a growing emphasis on sharing various life events on the platforms of new media (Web 2.0). Such platforms can be social media sites or one of the file or video sharing pages or blogs. In addition to presenting user habits shaped by the COVID pandemic, which have temporarily changed the online communication, I aim to answer the question of how new media (Web 2.0) becomes the platform of communal loss for users of different ages, genders, social statuses, and diverse Internet usage habits and socialization. I attempt to present the comprehensive picture of the transformation of personal loss into communal grief experience on the different platforms of new media and what supportive acts help the person who shares his/her loss experience in the processing of the events. By means of feedback (reactions, comments, replies with different emoticons), the user’s loss experience “expands” into communal loss experience. In the present research paper, the findings of the international discipline are only applied to Hungary (its current population is 9.6 million), a Central Eastern European country where, according to a representative study published in 2015, there are 5 million Facebook users.

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Community Trauma Healing—Theory and Practice

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Processes and outcomes of a communalization of trauma approach: Vets & Friends community‐based support groups

Processes and outcomes of a communalization of trauma approach: Vets & Friends community‐based support groups

The Psychology of Inclusion on New Media Platforms and the Online Communication

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