It can get better: Making meaning from trauma

Within a couple months of starting my PhD fieldwork in San Salvador, El Salvador, in January 2018, I was disintegrating. My research was about how dangerous places are made and…

March 4, 2025

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Program innovations in VAWG prevention: Making the Case for Mind-Body Approaches

Setting the Context At Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) we have spent the last eight years deepening our understanding of how trauma is held in our bodies and growing…

October 8, 2024

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How civil society and the public sector can work together to respond to violence against women – the Mapa do Acolhimento’s experience in Brazil

Mapa do Acolhimento – or Safe Heaven Map - is a Brazilian initiative that has generated tens of thousands of hours worth of support for women in over 1,000 cities…

December 13, 2022

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“Just another GBV training session”: Reflections on Psychosocial Response in the Context of Research

It was supposed to be "just another GBV training session." Or, so I thought. It was "just" one of more than 20 modules that formed part of a data collectors’ training session in…

September 30, 2022

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Mind-body approaches for healing after sexual violence

The SVRI in partnership with experts on mental health and violence against women (VAW) held a webinar to launch SVRI’s Knowledge Exchange on Healing from Sexual Violence: Body-focused mental health approaches. This Knowledge…

May 12, 2021

A Community Health Volunteer Facilitating A Men Group PM+ Session (Photo: Jacinta Sila, World Vision Kenya)

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Supporting Men’s Mental Health to Reduce Gender-Based Violence in Kenya

Globally an average of 119 women are killed every day by an intimate partner or family member. This translates to one woman killed every 12 minutes. Statistics indicate that Kenya has some…

December 7, 2017

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Trauma research: Survivor and trauma counselling experiences in Uganda

Previous research found high levels of trauma-related difficulties amongst the conflict-affected population in Northern Uganda. There is international evidence that psychological therapy can reduce depression, one of the effects of…

March 22, 2017

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Mental health and intimate partner violence in Kenya

Mental health has a crucial role in the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence. However, to date most research and practice has focused on the role of mental health post-violence,…