VIth International Conference for Health and Human Rights. Cavtat, Croatia, 21-24 June 2001.

Day 1 - From Crisis to Reconstruction

Keynote lectures

Mary Petevi: Response to communities in humanitarian crisis. "Do the most for the most." abstract

Anica Mikus Kos: Community based approaches to mental health protection in the post-war situation. abstract

Individual presentations (abstracts and full articles)

Charles David Tauber: Work in Eastern Croatia, Northern Bosnia and Vojvodina: results and perspectives for a community-based model of complex rehabilitation. abstract full article

Maria Linglingay Guzman-Salutin: WCIRAC's integrated intervention approach has led to sustainable communities. abstract full article

Reuven Gal: Social capital, citizenship behavior and service learning - as strengthening forces for community reconstruction. abstract full article

Alison B. Strang, Alastair Ager: Building a conceptual framework for psychosocial intervention in complex emergencies: reporting on the work of the psychosocial working group. abstract full article

Elizabeth Capewell: Reclaiming process in crisis intervention: a review of critical incidendt stress debriefing (cisd).
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Vijay Shah et al: Holistic approach to community health in post-conflict situation. abstract full article

Maria Teresa Fenoglio: Strangers in their home town: working with an italian neighbourhood facing a major challenge. A psychological perspective. abstract full article

Jacques Moser: Health care provision to refugees from the Balkans in private and hospital practice in Switzerland. abstract full article

Loes van Willigen: Bridging the gap - a multi-dimensional programme for the integration of refugees in the Netherlands. abstract full article

Juana Lloret de Fernandez: El sueno de los que quedan y su relacion con el pensamiento andino. abstract

Hernan Monasterio, Elisa Neumann: Reactive psychosis in victims of torture. abstract full article (spanish)

Lili Avensur et al: Politica concertada de salud mental en Peru. english abstract spanish abstract full article (spanish)

Rafael Miranda: Gestion autonoma y reconstruccion comunitaria. abstract full article (spanish)

Individual presentations (abstracts only)

Olja Druzic, Damir Ljubotina: Community from destruction to social reconstruction - 10 years experience. abstract

Eva Andela Delale, Ljiljana Mulslic: Work with children in resettled community: varieties of intervention abstract

Minja Manduric-Bender et al: Return support network in BH. abstract

Sarah Crawford-Browne, Lane Benjamin: Continuous trauma: lessons from a community shattered by apartheid, gangsterism and a tornado (the Cape Flats) abstract

Mark Borg: Point of impact community conflict resolution. abstract

Alan Cohen, Yehuda Shacham: Communities coping with uncertainty in the Middle East. abstract

Damir Ljubotina et al: Psychosocial assistance to refugees and displaced persons in repatriation process - model proposal.abstract

Rony Berger: From crisis to reconstruction: an ecological model. abstract

Ragnhild Dybdahl: An ecological model of children of war. abstract

Bolanle Elizabeth Adetoun: Death anxiety and death denial: Nigerian older adults' metaphors of personal death. abstract

Gulzar Ahmad: Conflict and reconstruction of marriage and the family. abstract

Sophie Durieux-Paillard et al: Supportive therapy of a group of Bosnian refugees. abstract

Izabel Eiriz, Ruth Rubin Sanchez: Encuentros multiculturales de mujeres immigrantes: una experiencia communitaria en Suiza. abstract

Izabel Eiriz: Por un desarollo personal y comunitario: capacitacion del voluntariado en contextos de desastres. spanish abstract english abstract

Maria-Gladys Busse: Intervencion terapeutica centrada en los ritos. abstract

Edgard Fernando Pacheco Luza: Violencia a la mujer en los Andes del Peru. abstract

Daniel Kersner et al: Abordaje psicosocial en afectados por violaciones a los derechos humanos. abstract

Thematic Symposia (abstracts only)

Jorge Aroche et al: Psychosocial recovery after trauma in East-Timor. abstract

Jasmina Bajraktarevic-Hayward: Applying systemic approach in working with the Bosnian community. abstract

Jens Modvig et al: Community support for stressful trauma effects in post-conflict East-Timor. abstract

Amber Elisabeth Gray: Restoring culture when home is destroyed: dance/movement therapy. abstract

Izabela Lundberg: The nature of the unbiased child and the development of prejudice-childcare programs with refugees in Croatia, Sweden, and the USA. abstract

Sarah Greenfield: Massage therapy - rebuilding the bond between self and body. abstract

Nirinjan Laura Bikko Somatics and dance - the PTSD support group for Cambodian women. abstract