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- Title: Community, Spiritual Traditions, And Disasters in Collective Societies.
- Author : Journal of Psychology and Theology
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 221 KB
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This article posits a deeply contextual and communal therapy as the best path to a victim's reconstruction of a sense of 'home.' The authors take seriously the recent call of Zhang Kan, chairperson of the Chinese Psychological Society, to consider the localities and heritage of China in the construction of psychotherapy for Chinese. The article follows Walsh's four ways by which reconstructed communities arc a resource for detoxifying the effects of trauma and disaster: shared acknowledgement of the traumatic events, shared experience of loss and survivorship, reorganization of the community, and reinvestment in relationships. It is argued that spirituality can also play a positive role in the recovery of meaning and community after disaster when honored rather than instrumentalized. Examples will be drawn from the communal/religious reconstructive efforts of Ukrainian Mennonites in communist Russia, the ways in which Chinese responded to the 5.12 earthquake, and the work of the Catholic diocese with Guatemalan indigenous peoples in honoring the dead in rebuilding communities. In response to the 5.12 earthquake in Sichuan, the international mental health community flooded the region with researchers and practitioners. The result was the use of a kaleidoscope of Western techniques and models-from EMDR and sand tray therapy for children, to medication and critical incident debriefing. As a result, the Chinese Psychological Society called for greater reflection on indigenous models of care. The chairperson of the society, Zhang Kan (2008), lamented that criteria for PTSD in China should be revised to reflect local definitions. Moreover, he insisted that since China had survived for five millennia, Chinese psychologists would do well to explore and recover indigenous methods of "counseling."
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