I am researching women's experiences of psychological trauma in post-conflict communities, but interested in both conflict-related and non-conflict related experiences.
I would like to get an understanding of the range of theoretical perspectives on this topic.
Thank you!
Here are a few possibilities:
Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice, and Research
Shoshana Ringel - University of Maryland Baltimore, USA
Jerrold R. Brandell - Wayne State University
Herman, Judith Lewis (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York: BasicBooks. ISBN 0-465-08766-3.
Bessel A. van der Kolk; Alexander C. McFarlane; Lars Weisaeth (1996). Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 1-57230-088-4.
Scaer, Robert C. (2005). The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-70466-1.
Hello,
This presents a nice model (but applies to all genders) and may have additional references you could look-up...
Miller, K. E., & Rasmussen, A. (2010). War exposure, daily stressors, and mental health in conflict and post-conflict settings: bridging the divide between trauma-focused and psychosocial frameworks. Social science & medicine, 70(1), 7-16.
Other work...
Murthy, R. S., & Lakshminarayana, R. (2006). Mental health consequences of war: a brief review of research findings. World Psychiatry, 5(1), 25-30.
Silove, D. (1999). The psychosocial effects of torture, mass human rights violations, and refugee trauma: Toward an integrated conceptual framework. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 187(4), 200-207.
The first two chapters of John P. Wilson's Treating psychological trauma & PTSD may interest you.
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PeFUHiGwU_4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=John+P.+Wilson+Treating+psychological+trauma+%26+PTSD&ots=vRTE5lDV58&sig=31r6INd5avyj9r7Vom_4yWydAII#v=onepage&q=John%20P.%20Wilson%20Treating%20psychological%20trauma%20%26%20PTSD&f=false
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