Différences culturelles et rencontre du vide : vécu contre-transférentiel en clinique du Traumatisme, quel repères pour le psychologue expatrié?

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Psychological support for children who are victims of abuse in Cambodia: Culture as a developmental tool of traumatic experience

When psychologists step in the humanitarian field, they are confronted with cultural and language issues during their intervention. The way of expressing trauma is deeply linked with the cultural background, thus it should guide and shape the psychological support to make it more appropriate. Within a Khmer NGO, we have set up a psychological support based on different sorts of mediation. Our patients were eight children with the same set of symptoms: recurrence and massive anxiety, most of the time appearing through animist cultural representations. In this article, we will first present the situation of Bonat, witness of domestic violence and of his mother’s death, and then the situation …

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« Présentation d'un outil d'évaluation de l'évolution des processus psychiques au sein d'un dispositif thérapeutique en clinique du traumatisme »

Objectives: Our project consists in the implementation and the evaluation of a care system for children in a child protection NGO in Cambodia. In view of the cultural differences and specificities of the field, taking into account only the symptoms does not seem to sufficiently account for the processes involved within the system. Based on the observation that there is a lack of tools that would allow us to apprehend these processes, our study focused on the creation of a scoring grid for psychological processes that could be used in the humanitarian field and could support clinical practice. Method: During one year, we met ten children confronted with traumatogenic events, within a device …