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Trauma training in Ruanda enters the next phase In October 2010 the first two-years-upgrade training course in psychodynamic-resource oriented trauma therapy ended. The participants were clinical psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses. The course included five training sessions of three days each and took place in the education centre of the CPR in Kigali. Between the sessions those participants, who had a basic training in trauma counseling and also experiences with traumatized clients, carried out psychotherapeutic treatments. During training sessions theoretic skills were taught and ongoing cases were discussed.
The substances of the course, among others, were basics of psychotraumatology, diagnostics of symptoms following traumas, therapeutic counseling techniques, comprehension of psychodynamic relationship, techniques of distancing, strategies to activate patients personal resources, relaxation and reassurance techniques. The participants applied resource activating techniques which they did not know before with good success and developed and implemented cultural adaptations by themselves. Especially imaginative techniques of stabilization were applied after initial skepticism with remarkable success. |
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