Training service providers working with traumatized children in South Africa: The navigations of a trainer |
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Authors: | Justine Evans Leslie Swartz |
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Institution: | Edith Cowan University , Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, Western Australia, 6027 |
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Abstract: | In South Africa, counselling training poses two related difficulties: working in a situation of ubiquitous, ongoing violence, and offering training to people who have minimal or no qualifications and are often overwhelmed by enormous workload. In this context, there is a temptation either to give up hope in the face of the enormity of the task, or defensively to package counselling as a set of techniques which can be taught without much self-reflection. In this article we discuss, by contrast, an intervention which used psychodynamic principles to develop learner-centred training drawing on trainees' own experiences. We consider the benefits of this approach even in a context of violence and meagre resources. |
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Keywords: | South Africa Trauma Violence Counselling Training |
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