Social Healing Research Articles

Restorative Justice and its impact on Primary Schools Students of Swat, KP-Pakistan: In Psychological Perspective

Restorative justice is an alternative disciplinary approach to the traditional, punitive approach to discipline. The present study has done justice to the researcher’sexpectation to be a path breaking one in the region of Swat, KP-Pakistan for initiation Restorative justice, first as a class based intervention, and then to be offered after enrichment, a whole school programme.Despite its increasing recognition and use in Swat, Primary schools, a limited amount of research has evaluated the effect of restorative justice (RJ) for Primary schools and its impact, and response. To date, there is no standardized method for restorative justice implementation. The inherent qualities such as disciplining the students intrinsically, reducing the misconducts ranging from small cheating to causing wounds or loss to others, inducting students in peer mediation, and organizing Restorative justice mediation/conferencing for achieving reparation and restoration of relationships, and converting the entire institution as a place of social healing are shown to be a viability with Restorative justice. The present study enjoys the credit of successfully testing 78% of the Restorative justice practice in the primary schools. The reduction of misconducts in students and increase in their psychological capitals is a laudable performance of the Restorative justice in the maiden run for its approval and consideration.

5․18 트라우마와 사회적 치유 - 광주트라우마센터 사례를 중심으로

이 글은 광주트라우마센터의 사례를 중심으로 5·18 트라우마를 둘러싼 치유 담론과 실천의 현주소를 비판적으로 검토한다. 국내 최초 국가폭력 트라우마센터를 표방한 광주트라우마센터의 건립 취지는 국가폭력 트라우마로서 5·18 트라우마의 특징에 입각한 치유의 방향을 모색하고 있지만, 광주트라우마센터의 구상과 실행 사이에는 일정한 간극이 자리한다. 본 연구는 이러한 간극과 불일치가 발생하는 지점에 착목해 그 원인을 해명하고, 국가폭력 트라우마로서 5·18 트라우마에 적합한 치유모델을 모색하여 다음과 같은 방법론적 제언을 하였다. 첫째, 광주트라우마센터의 구상과 실천 사이의 간극을 해소하기 위해서는 재난 현장 및 치유적 실천 현장에서 제기되는 ‘전문성의 정치’의 위험성과 한계를 깊이 성찰할 필요가 있다. 둘째, 국가폭력 트라우마에 적합한 치유의 방법론을 개발하기 위해선 개별 피해자 중심의 심리치료적 접근에서 한발 더 나아간 ‘피해자-사회’ 중심의 사회적 치유 모델로의 전환이 필요하다. 셋째, 광주트라우마센터가 진행해온 사회적 건강 증진 프로그램의 성과를 보다 진전시키기 위해선 언론집단 교류와 연구부문에서의 노력이 보완될 필요가 있다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 치유 주체의 확장을 통해 국가폭력 트라우마의 사회적 치유 모델을 견인할 실험장으로서 광주트라우마센터의 새로운 역할 설정을 제안하였다. 본 연구가 제안한 5·18 트라우마와 그 치유에 대한 사회적 외상이론의 관점은 이미 세워진 또는 앞으로 세워지게 될 또 다른 국가폭력 트라우마센터의 방향성을 (재)논의할 유의미한 통찰을 제공하고 있다.

종교와 영성, 그 사회적 치유

초록·키워드 목차 오류제보하기 등록된 정보가 없습니다. Ⅰ. 들어가는 말Ⅱ. 종교현상학 입장에서 ‘인간의 영성’을 이해하는 의미Ⅲ. 영성은 본래적 인간의 존재양태요 존재방식: 참된 영성적 사람들의 라이프 스타일Ⅳ. 나가는 말참고문헌

A political dimension of grief: Individual and social healing after conflict

Mass violence is often characterized by the disappearance of the victims' bodies, preventing families from mourning. In Latin America, the exhumation processes emerged partially as a response to this situation. The search for the dead has always been a political issue, as the mourning of the victim’s relatives has been presented as a “humanitarian” objective and a peace-building tool, thus articulating individual and social healing. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Guatemala, this article questions the representations of the legacy of violence between generations, as well as local indigenous representations of mourning through appropriated notions such as trauma and susto.

Reflecting on COVID‐19 and the Future of Assessment

Reflecting on COVID‐19 and the Future of Assessment

Socio-economic challenges faced by traditional healers in Limpopo province of South Africa: conversations from below

Traditional healing remains core to many local communities in South Africa. This research was aimed at fostering stronger relationships between traditional healers and biomedical medicine focusing on their socio-economic challenges. This research involved collaboration between two Universities in South Africa and the USA, focusing on the social welfare and traditional healing, by articulating the experiences and positions of 40 selected traditional healers. Afro-sensed and developmental social welfare approaches were used for this study. Qualitative research approaches using focus group discussions, direct observations and in-depth interviews with selected traditional healers were applied. A thematic analysis approach was used to cluster emerging themes and sub-themes. Carefully presented themes were sifted from the data that referred to traditional healers’ experiences of their socio-economic realities. It should be noted that, while the socio-economic status of healers was significant, the scope of spiritual and philosophical dimensions related to traditional healing could not be ignored.

‘Faut que ça rappe!’: Musical revitalization, social healing and the politics of performance in the Gabonese rap world (2009–20)

The aim of this article is to contribute to our understanding of how local rap worlds evolve by describing the successive processes of the decline and revitalization of rap music in Gabon between 2009 and 2020, and by questioning the technologies and mediations employed for that purpose. This article considers how these transformations overlap with a history of complex relationships between music and politics, arguing that the revitalization of the rap world was related to a broader attempt at social healing and reconciliation after a violent political conflict. It stems from a long-term ethnography study conducted in Libreville and the Gabonese diaspora from 2008 to 2016 and on the analysis of two recent rap projects launched in Libreville: ‘Bwiti Gang Cypher’ and ‘Catalogue Challenge’. Through the analysis of these two performances, I highlight how the attempt at revitalization was relying on a complex mix of mediations and technologies, including original hip hop conventions and local healing rituals and how it has allowed for the transformation of divisive conflicts into a cathartic moment of collective listening. This article finally proves the double dimension of musical revitalization, one where music rebirth and social healing overlap, and it shows how the embeddedness of music and politics can be permanently transformed through the agency of social actors who develop a creative play between different technologies and mediations.

From Brokenness To Wholeness : A Christian Ministry For Healing “HAN” in the Korean Context

Today we are living with many problems in the world. Human beings are dying and expelled out of their living places even at this moment. Many people are forced to get out of their hometowns and wandering as refuges. Korea is another country where there many problems arising from evil structures. Above all, the division of Korea into north and south is the most painful suffering for all Koreans. After experiencing Japanese colonial rule for 36 years, Korea was divided in 1945, with its south occupied by the United States and its north by the Soviet Union. This division was solidified by the Korean War in 1950 to 1953. In Korea, all people are suffering from the same wound. It is characterized as so-called ‘han.’ That is, Koreans have suffered numerous invasions by surrounding powerful nations so that the very existence of the Korean nation has come to be understood as han. Of course, the term han is not only applied to Koreans but also to all other suffering peoples in the world. How should we, as Christians, understand and respond to the problem of han? It is important to search for solutions to their problems theologically. It is an important task for all Koreans to solve it. Further, it is one of essential issues for Christians to deal with the personal and social dimension of han. In this article, I focused on the case of Korea, centering on the concept of han. I first examined the concepts of han in several ways: the definitions of han; the stories of han; and the roots of han. Then, I explicated the biblical and theological basis for resolving the problem of han. Third, I searched for pastoral ways of healing han with regard to Christian healing ministry. In conclusion, I maintained that we must actively engage in work for justice and peace for the resolution of han. It is related to the social dimensions of Christian ministry, so-called social healing. Then, I briefly pointed out tasks for further studies.

Human Rights Based Law Protection Model for the Mental, Spiritual and the Healing Victims of Child Trafficking In Indonesia

The protection needed by children to face the reality of being the victims of child trafficking is not only physical protection, but mental, spiritual, and social healing as well. The punishment system still focuses on criminals instead of the victims. The law protection model for the victims of child trafficking in Indonesia is not comprehensive, so there is little chance that the victims get their rights. Although Act Number 21 Year 2007 has guaranteed the victims’ rights, the chance to get their rights is relatively minimal.

Clinical features, cases of psychiatric diagnosis and socio-demographic characteristics of patients with polyclinics of forensic psychiatry in education research hospital

Purpose: In this study, sociodemographic characteristics of the patients referred to our forensic psychiatry outpatient clinic will be highlighted in terms of their features such as age and educational status, and the scope of crime, substance use and clinical features and the most frequently diagnosed diagnoses will be determined. Methods: A total of 191 patients who were referred to the psychiatry outpatient clinic of the Training and Research Hospital between 01.01.2018 and 15.12.2018 by judicial authorities and outpatient admissions were included in the study. Sociodemographic features such as age, gender, educational status and clinical diagnoses and substance use cases were retrospectively reviewed. Findings: Of the forensic cases, 36 (18.8%) were female and 155 (81.2%) were male. The mean age of the group was 44.52 ± 16.522 (18-92) years. The level of education was 104 (54.45%) primary school, 72 (42.93%) secondary school and 15 (2.62%) high school. Of the cases, 137 had a history of psychiatric history, of which 100 were diagnosed. While 41 (34.45%) patients had mood disorders with the first place in the diagnostic distribution evaluated within the scope of international classification (ICID-10), 37 (31.09%) people had schizophrenia and delusional disorders. The Ministry of Justice is most frequently asked for an assessment under the Article 432 of the Turkish Criminal Code, while the crimes committed are predominantly based on physical attacks. Result: This study aimed to make an inference in terms of cause and effect of crime and punishment duo. In cases where violent crimes were predominant, it was concluded that there were very few psychiatric disorders, no criminal capacity under the scope of criminal capacity and the cases were followed with social healing.

Teasing people into health? Sami cartoons, Indigenous humour, and provocative therapy

Maren Uthaug's razor-sharp and self-deprecating cartoons reflect Sami people in a seemingly offensive way, addressing sensitive Indigenous issues such as cultural disorientation, racism, suicide, and addiction in an outspoken way. However, it was Sami people – Uthaug's relatives – who asked for and successfully published these cartoons. Why do Sami people request cartoons like these? Outlining some relevant aspects of highly divergent Western Comics Studies, the analysis and interpretation of selected cartoons is an opportunity to compare Uthaug's provocative strategies to the functions of humour in First Nations literature. Accordingly, the paper focuses on Indigenous humour as a means of emotional and social healing in the processes of decolonization and reconciliation and, additionally, adopts Frank Farrelly's concept of provocative therapy which is defined as a way of teasing people into health. Relying on Native American Terry Tafoya's (Taos Pueblo) description of Farrelly as a kind of medicine man, the paper asks whether also Uthaug acts as a cartoon-drawing Chiffoneti, a blend of priest, healer, and trickster regarding Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers.

Perils of conversation: #MeToo and opportunities for peacebuilding

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the opportunities for future organizational and leadership research presented by positioning dialogue related to the #MeToo movement within a peacebuilding agenda. The #MeToo movement raised public consciousness about the pervasiveness of sexual assault and harassment in schools, workplaces and other institutions by an international social media campaign. However, subsequent discussions are often charged with hostility and outrage that result in divisiveness within workplaces and other settings that can further silence about these issues. The authors argue a community peacebuilding framework can create space to have difficult conversations to further the efforts of the #MeToo movement. Design/methodology/approach The authors will discuss the implications of a peacebuilding framework by the discussion of a case study in a rural setting to highlight the ways in which community conversations necessary to further the goals of the #MeToo movement. Findings A grassroots community peacebuilding framework can present opportunities for victims, offenders, family members and the community to voice expressions harms experienced and to enable processes of accountability. Promotion of a positive relational peace includes opportunities for education, skill development and conflict resolution that are healing and transformative for individuals and communities. Research limitations/implications The systemic social and cultural change required to prevent sexual harassment and sexual assault must happen within face-to-face relationships within community dialogue. Practical implications The authors argue a critical relational peace lens offers an emancipatory framework that can initiate change from the bottom up to facilitate social healing and further the efforts of the #MeToo movement. Social implications Grassroots peacebuilding invites a relational peace established by dialogue within communities. This dialogue is often not easy but is recognized as essential to establishing trust, resolving conflict and fostering community integrity. Originality/value In this paper, the authors offer a community peacebuilding framework to provide skill development and a vision necessary to host difficult conversations to inform the next wave of the #MeToo movement.

Grameen Model and its ethical inclinations to Islamic Microfinance System: A Narrative-Textual Case Study

This study focuses on an in-depth literature review to understand the Islamic microfinance as a system and grameen model as a concept all embedded in ethical concern for shared values. The concept of Grameen model and its ethical behavior have come to the fore in recent years in both developed and developing countries as a result of growing sense of corporate wrongdoing. The paper addresses the Grameen model and its ethical relevance to the benefits and success of Islamic microfinance in modern economy. the Grameen model has always offered the concept of social microfinance and such a model results in a more fulfilling work life and career. It is a radically different approach to doing business that emphasizes making money as its main goal, but not for the sake of wealth alone. In the same sense, Islamic microfinance aimed to focus on profit/loss sharing by using the funds on economic generating, investing and trading activities to make a profit and share that profit with all the depositors and shareholders, whilst protecting the fabric of our society without engaging in activities prohibited and harmful to the society. With this in mind, the entire money-making process can be sanctified so that it becomes a holy and noble pursuits. To achieve the above, this research paper draw lessons from the activities of an impeccable vision and salvaging activities of illustrious personage and veteran of many years standing from Bangladesh in his quest for promoting economic development and eradication of poverty among rural dwellers. This paper considered Islamic microfinance as a tool that could be used to achieve the necessary economic and social security that a country would need today leading to the overall development of humanity. As the western culture offers classic microfinance as the way to do business and in recent years, postmodernism has nominated a new model-microcredit to supersede the statuesque. This study, in general, recommended for the revitalization of Islamic civilization that would geared towards a paradigm shift to now novel concept of spiritual microfinance as a way to stimulate business and get closer to God simultaneously and as well stimulates social entrepreneurs who must focus on the goal of having a healthy income statement and simultaneously championing some sort of social healing enterprise. Keywords: Ethical finance, Investment, Islamic microfinance, microcredit, Shari’ah.

Healing effects from the on‐site experiences of tourists

AbstractThis study adopted a new variable labeled “healing effects,” in place of “quality of life,” to measure the service dimension of the health‐oriented tourism experience. A questionnaire survey was given to visitors to a guesthouse in Korea. The results indicate that “deviation experience(s)” has a large influence on “the affective healing effect,” but “destination experience” has no significant influence on affective healing. Also, “resident relationship experience” has a great influence on “cognitive and social healing effect,” but “deviation experience” again has no significant influence. The findings of this study provide a theoretical contribution as a pioneering study of healing effects.

재난의 감정정치와 추모의 사회학 ― 감정의 의료화를 넘어 사회적 치유로 ―

재난의 감정정치와 추모의 사회학 ― 감정의 의료화를 넘어 사회적 치유로 ―

Pour a Libation for Us: Restoring the Sense of a Moral Universe to Children Affected by Violence

ABSTRACTAddressing the treatment of children and adolescents affected by violent societies is a difficult one. The problem of combining family, community, and social healing with concern for the well-being of each affected child has been an intractable one in many countries, including the US. The Moral Third is a developmental concept that illustrates how a sense of the moral world is at the heart of psychic development. The paper proposes that this concept offers significant practical application to the treatment of young people affected by violence and the society that has injured them.The author draws on global efforts to think about this work in countries experiencing armed conflict. She reviews theoretical contributions from Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa and their application to US populations. A case example from Sierra Leone illustrates the combined use of traditional healing with group work to create a space in which affected children, their caregivers, and communities could symbolize unspeakable experience and begin to heal. The paper connects the conceptual framework illustrated by this example with that of the Moral Third to suggest the creation of a way forward in which youngsters, their therapists and society might heal together.

Ética y psicoterapia: Una perspectiva sociocultural

La meta principal de este trabajo busca comprender la ética en psicoterapia desde una perspectiva sociocultural. Para conseguirla, la psicoterapia, al ser una práctica social de cura, se relacionará con los elementos socioculturales a su base. Esta perspectiva permite ofrecer a los terapeutas algunas reflexiones éticas sobre qué (y por qué) es correcto hacer, o no, en el campo de la psicoterapia. Ejemplificar y deconstruir tales elementos facilita la formación de los terapeutas, al igual que nos permite lograr la necesidad ética de pensadores más críticos. Este artículo desarrolla estas metas, situando, en primer lugar, a la psicoterapia en un contexto sociocultural y ejemplificando la influencia bidireccional entre psicoterapia y sociedad. Esto se relacionará con una perspectiva ética puesto que determina qué se permite hacer a terapeutas y clientes y cómo se construyen, socialmente, las metas y los medios adecuados de la psicoterapia. En segundo lugar, el trabajo se centrará en los tres desafíos éticos principales de la psicoterapia, es decir, confianza, cuidado y poder. Existe una gran relación entre estos tres elementos y no se pueden comprender ni desarrollar adecuadamente a menos que se sitúen en el contexto de una práctica socialmente construida.

The Daughters Debt: How Black Spirituality and Politics are Transforming the Televisual Landscape

The spectrum of black women's spirituality in television has become nearly as diverse as the portraits of Afro-Atlantic spiritual practices that became central to key literary works of black feminist authors of the 1980s, such as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. While many are the spiritual and televisual daughters of the authors mentioned above, this essay argues that the appearance of this wider range of black women's spirituality and activism in episodic television owes its greatest debt to two films from the 1990s, Julie Dash's, Daughters of the Dust (1991) and Kasi Lemmons’ Eve's Bayou (1997). I focus here on two shows which were themselves created by Black women feature film directors, Shots Fired (Gina Prince Bythewood with Reggie Rock Bythewood) and Queen Sugar (Ava DuVernay). I examine how characters like Pastor Janae (from Shots) and Nova Bordelon (from Sugar) use their spiritual practices in service of social justice, family, and community healing in ways that connect them to the women of Dash and Lemmons’ earlier films.

Learning Together to Heal: Toward an Integrated Practice of Transpersonal Psychology, Experiential Learning, and Neuroscience for Collective Healing

This essay brings together complementary insights from transpersonal psychology, experiential learning, and neuroscience to develop an integrated framework of psychosocial healing in societies affected by conflict and trauma. While transpersonal psychology examines the spiritual and transcendental aspects of psychosocial wellbeing, research on experiential learning examines how people learn from direct experience. Recognizing that both are useful for psychosocial healing, the first part of the essay explores how the two sets of activities can complement each other. Of particular interest is the role of transpersonal exercises such as yoga and meditation, as well as the purposeful use of experiential learning techniques such as storytelling, rituals, and metaphors. To examine the scientific foundations of these activities for psychosocial healing, findings from neuroscientific studies supported by the latest technology of neuroimaging will be discussed. The final section of the essay introduces a brief case study of the Ubuntu Center for Peace, a Rwanda-based nongovernmental organization dedicated to community-based psychosocial support. The case study illustrates how the proposed integrative framework can be used to tackle a real-world context of conflict and trauma. It includes preliminary findings from a program evaluation of the community-based social healing initiative that the Ubuntu Center carried out in Rwanda.

역사 왜곡에 대한 저항으로서 5.18 영화와 그 사회 치유적 힘

역사 왜곡에 대한 저항으로서 5.18 영화와 그 사회 치유적 힘