Abstract
Kenya experienced post-election violence in 2007/2008; leaving 1,113 people dead and over 650,000 people displaced from their homes. The purpose of the study therefore, was assessment of effectiveness of Virginia Satir’s Model in trauma recovery of 2007/08 Post Election Violence Integrated Internally Displaced Persons in Thika Sub County in Kiambu County. The study used quasi-experimental research design in which the researcher used Solomon’s Four Non-equivalent Control Group Design. The researcher sampled 125 participants from the accessible 240 Integrated Internally Displaced Persons from Kiandutu, Kiganjo, Gachagi and Umoja slum villages in Thika Sub County who formed the four groups of study. The control groups were taken through regular counseling model while the experimental groups were exposed to Virginia Satir’s Model. Quantitative methods of data analysis involving the use of Analysis of Variance and t-test was used to list statistical significant difference within and among means in the posttest scores for the groups. Computations were conducted using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21 for windows. The researcher established that the Virginia Satir’s Model had minimal effect on enhancing coping mechanisms among IIDPs.
Highlights
Research on World Mental Health (WMH) assessing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following natural and human-made disasters has been undertaken for more than three decades
WHO World Mental Health Surveys in 24 countries (n = 68,894) assessed 29 lifetime traumas and evaluated PTSD twice for each respondent: once for the “worst” lifetime trauma and separately for a randomly-selected trauma with weighting to adjust for individual differences in trauma exposures
Trauma exposure is common throughout the world, unequally distributed, and differential across trauma types with respect to PTSD risk
Summary
Research on World Mental Health (WMH) assessing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following natural and human-made disasters has been undertaken for more than three decades. PEV 2007/08 remains the most traumatic post-election violence in Kenya calling for serious mental health intervention strategies. There are limited reports showing assessment of systemic therapy’s effectiveness in trauma healing It was against this background that this study sought to assess the effectiveness of Virginia Satir’s Model in trauma counseling of the 2007/08 IIDPs. Virginia Satir started family camps in 1976 to promote both individual and systemic self-actualization by raising members’ self-esteem’s focused on raising individual consciousness, personal esteem and promotion of world peace. By the time Virginia Satir died, there were established professional training groups in the Middle East, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, Central and Latin America and Russia This showed that the model worked in multicultural settings worth trying in related studies in Kenya
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