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Obituary to Prof. Henrik Marcussen

Torture, 2023
Obituary to Prof. Henrik Marcussen (17 January 1938 - 22 February 2023)
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Evaluation of an Alternative Learning System for youths at risk of involvement in urban violence in the Philippines

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021
Background Globally, violence disproportionately affects young people, leading to injury, hospitalisation, death, social dysfunction, and poor mental wellbeing.
Nishant Mehra, Shr-Jie Sharlenna Wang, Juancho Reyes, Mette Møhl Ambjørnsen, Johan Jarl   +4 more
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Medico-legal evaluation of torture victims in the USA before the Istanbul Protocol

Torture, 2023
The article reviews the historical precedents of the Forensic Assessment of Torture Survivors in the US in the 1970s and 1980s, setting the precedents of the US branch of the construction of the Istanbul Protocol that was developed in the late 1990s.
Jose Quiroga, Ana Deutsch
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Depression and Torture [PDF]

Military Medicine, 2001
Torture represents an exceptionally traumatic experience in which horror, helplessness, and hopelessness are extreme. Therefore, it can be expected that depression, along with other trauma-related disorders is present in torture victims at higher rates than in other psychotraumatized individuals. To demonstrate this, we examined two groups of refugees,
Rončević-Gržeta, Ika, Frančišković, Tanja, Moro, Ljiljana, Kaštelan, Ana   +3 more
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Torture and torture practices in Tanzania: Knowledge, attitudes and practice among medical professionals

Torture, 2019
Introduction: Medical professionals have a key role in addressing torture and need an awareness and knowledge of torture in relation to rehabilitation approaches, prevention and international standards. This study was undertaken with the aim of assessing
Brenda Van den Bergh, Marie Brasholt, Praxeda James Swai, Primus Saidia, Moses Kidew, Naomi Lipsius Hincheli, Maha Aon, Jens Modvig   +7 more
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Intensive psychotherapy and case management for Karen refugees with major depression in primary care: a pragmatic randomized control trial

BMC Family Practice, 2020
Background Despite an unparalleled global refugee crisis, there are almost no studies in primary care addressing real-world conditions and longer courses of treatment that are typical when resettled refugees present to their physician with critical ...
Andrea K. Northwood, Maria M. Vukovich, Alison Beckman, Jeffrey P. Walter, Novia Josiah, Leora Hudak, Kathleen O’Donnell Burrows, James P. Letts, Christine C. Danner   +8 more
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Launch of IRCT report on conversion therapy

Torture, 2020
On 23 April 2020, IRCT published its re- search on the global practice of conversion therapy. The report, entitled “It’s Torture Not Therapy,” compiles information on the “practices, practitioners and roles of states in conducting, supporting, promoting ...
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Voices of torture survivors in Tanzania: A qualitative study

Torture, 2018
Introduction: No published research has been found on torture in Tanzania, but individual cases were documented by human rights organisations. The aim of this study was to explore the salient physical, mental and social effects of torture in the country,
Maha Aon, Harold Sungusia, Marie Brasholt, Brenda Van Den Bergh, Jens Modvig   +4 more
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From sexualized torture and gender-based torture to genderized torture: The urgent need for a conceptual evolution

Torture, 2018
Classical perspectives on sexualized torture are being increasingly challenged by contemporary debates informed by emerging claims (Mendez, 2016; Sáez, 2016; Sifris, 2014).
Pau Pérez-Sales, Maggie Zraly
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Twenty seven years of treating survivors of torture and organized violence – associations between torture, gender and ethnic minority status among refugees referred for treatment of PTSD

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021
Background: Victims of torture and organized violence are among the most vulnerable refugees. The nature of torture promotes shame, secrecy and silencing of the survivors, and there is a need for studies to provide a testimony to the experiences of ...
Nina Thorup Dalgaard, Karen Bjerre, Marie Høgh Thøgersen   +2 more
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