{"id":405,"date":"2015-08-12T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivo.artur.eu\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-10-01T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T08:40:58","slug":"gbv-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/gbv-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychosocial support for survivors of gender-based violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our work in Northern Uganda, vivo recorded alarmingly high rates of acts of gender-based violence: More than 80% of the female clients who had received trauma-focused treatments through vivo reported at least one sexual assault during their lifetime. Some of these traumatic sexual experiences took place during the war, but even in the post-conflict society sexual assaults towards women and children are on the rise. To provide psychotherapeutic support to survivors of gender-based violence, vivo was funded by the UN (namely the UN Peace Building Fund via UNFPA) in the framework of the project \u201cStrengthening the Multisectoral Approach to Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response\u201d from April 2011 until June 2012. In the course of this project, vivo offered a wide range of psychological support for traumatised children and women, which included psychodiagnostic assessments, trauma-focused therapy, solution-focused and resource-oriented counselling, family mediation and follow-up visits.
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\nCapacity building activities were another central part of the project. vivo disseminated knowledge about psychological reactions in the aftermath of traumatic experiences to staff members of partner organisations. <\/p>\n

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Teaching on how to deal with acute trauma survivors in an age-appropriate and gender-sensitive empathic way was a central element of these trainings. Furthermore, vivo provided trainings on stress-management to staff members of partner organisations in order to support them in coping with the psychological stress associated with working in the field of gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

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In the framework of this project, vivo has supported a total of 87 clients of whom 28 received Narrative Exposure Therapy. Follow-up assessments showed significant reductions of trauma-related mental health symptoms. Moreover, 18 trainings and supervisions were offered to a total of 16 organisations and 131 participants working in the field of gender-based violence (social, medical and legal service providers).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our work in Northern Uganda, vivo recorded alarmingly high rates of acts of gender-based violence: More than 80% of the female clients who had received trauma-focused treatments through vivo reported at least one sexual assault during their lifetime. Some of these traumatic sexual experiences took place during the war, but even in the post-conflict … Continue reading Psychosocial support for survivors of gender-based violence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[36,22,32],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-uganda","tag-women","tag-war_conflict","tag-sexual_violence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}