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A safe haven for chronically homeless women: a model program in Toronto

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This article evaluates a program that was specifically designed to serve and treat mentally ill homeless women. The author, focusing on the Savard program based in Toronto, discusses the program's underlying theme of establishing trust in which the women are freed from the social control and coercion of other programs, and slowly learn the necessary skills to live life on their own.

Canada, Care and treatment, Management, Mentally ill persons, Homeless shelters, Mentally ill, Homeless women

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Collective post-traumatic disorders, residual resources, and an extensive context of trust: creating a network in a refugee camp in former Yugoslavia

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This article evaluates a network therapy project developed and designed for two refugees camps for displaced persons of the former Yugoslavia. The authors, maintaining the camps housed approximatley 1,000 families, assert the network therapy project is providing the refugees with the means to deal with the trauma of war and the ability to build trusting relationships.

Yugoslavia, Social networks, Refugee camps

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Research on refugees: means of transmitting suffering and forging social bonds

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This article examines the impact of organized violence on familial and societal bonds. The authors, focusing on refugees who have suffered at the hands of organized violence, discuss the possibility of helping refugees reestablish their family and social ties through sharing experiences of traumatic events and breaking through the layers of pain and mistrust.

World, Interpersonal relations, Political violence

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