Teaching Council in Sri Lanka: A Post Disaster, Culturally Sensitive and Spiritual Model of Group Process
In response to the December 26, 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, a method of treating trauma with group therapy, called Council, was introduced to Sri Lankan para-professionals working for Sarvodaya, a local non-governmental organization, by American psychotherapists associated with Heart Circle Sang...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2012]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2012, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 390-401 |
| Further subjects: | B
Grief
B Group Therapy B Transgenerational transmission of trauma B Meditation B Dissociative fainting B Group Process B Multireligious B Sensitive to differences between eastern and western cultures B Spiritual B Buddhist B Disaster B War trauma B Group Psychotherapy B Muslim B Training local para-professional counselors B Southeast Asia B Rituals of religion B Defenses B Sri Lanka B Eye contact B Loss B Ritual B Tsunami B Mindfulness B Hindus B Trauma B Multi-ethnic B Christian B Post disaster |
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| Summary: | In response to the December 26, 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, a method of treating trauma with group therapy, called Council, was introduced to Sri Lankan para-professionals working for Sarvodaya, a local non-governmental organization, by American psychotherapists associated with Heart Circle Sangha, a Zen Buddhist temple in New Jersey. Working together, Americans and Sri Lankans incorporated meditation, mindfulness and culturally congruent spiritual ritual that made the group process acceptable and healing to the survivors who were Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and Christian. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-010-9358-3 |