Activities of Insitutions
Announcement
Press Release 7th Plenary Session of The ECCC Commences Tuesday 2 February 2010
Lastest News
- Day of reckoning (26-07-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- KRT on track for Case 002 indictments (16-07-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- Tuol Sleng torture survivor starts group for Khmer Rouge victims (4-02-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- Civil party reforms at KRT (29-01-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- KR Tribunal: Civil party increase for Case No 2 (8-01-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
Victim's word
Where Most Chinese were Killed
China was the alleged supported of Pol Pot’s government between 1975 and 1979. However, its close ally, the Khmer Rouge, killed a lot of Chinese in Cambodia, especially at Tuol Ang in Takeo province during its Democratiic Kampuchea. This is according to Taing Muoy Kear, 61, Prey Khla villager and...
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Activities of Insitutions : Mental Health Services
Why did Khmer Rouge years cause emotional trauma in some people and not in others?
It is important to emphasize that not all survivors of traumatic events respond to their experiences in the same way. While some Khmer Rouge survivors developed serious mental health issues due to the pain, devastation and loss they experienced, others say that living through these traumatic events also made them re-evaluate their priorities ...
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It is possible for trauma symptoms to be transmitted to the second generation ?
Such studies show that children who perceived their parent’s anguish and responded to it with empathy or over-identification experienced trauma symptoms, such as intrusion, avoidance, and hyper arousal. In addition, children who saw their parents as hypervigilant and socially mistrusting responded with their own levels of hypervigilance and mistrust. Finally, children whose parents communicated about their traumatic experiences...
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What are Mental Health Problems of children which Emerge and Are Caused by Traumatic Event?
From the firth day of their life, all children have to struggle with their own developmental tasks, with the normal limitation of their parents, and with the destructive human behavior in there social world. Event in so called “times of peace”, daily interaction with tension and unhealthy partners in their personal and material ...
How does emotional trauma effect interpersonal relationship?
Besides anxiety and depression, suppressed or frozen anger is one of the primary emotional responses to the traumatic events in the recent Cambodian history, resulting in the prevalence of domestic violence. The environment is still very insecure and high tension can be felt throughout civil society. Traumatic experiences can be triggered at any time...
Prophylactic Measures Against Burnout: Helping Supporters of Trauma Victims Relax and Stay Healthy
- Supporters of persons with severe mental health issues, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) risk getting severe Burnout Syndrome. This may be especially true for NGO workers in Cambodia working within psychosocial services. These people often make, more or less, conscientious commitments towards self-improvement and ...
What is individual and psychosocial trauma in the Cambodian context? (25 February, 2008)
What is a traumatic event? (21 February, 2008)
