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Chapter 1 --- introduction Chapter 2--- Addressing human response to war atrocity: major challenges in research and practice and the limitations of western psychiatric models Chapter 3 --- The severity of the trauma : Issues about its role in posttraumatic stress disorder Chapter 4 --- A cognitive processing formulation Chapter 5 --- Beyond the Victim Secondary Chapter 6 The deficiency of the concept of posttraumatic stress disorder when dealing with victims of human rights violations Chapter 7 --- the development of treatment approaches for victims of human rights violations in Chile Chapter 8 --- Cultural Analysis of research findings on the political instability in the philippines Chapter 9 ---Psy chotherapeutic work with refugees Chapter 10 The prevalence, trauma, and sociocultural causes of incestuous abuse of females: A human rights issue Chapter 11 --- What went Wrong?: Diagnostic and ethical problems in dealing with the effects of torture and repression in south Africa Chapter 12 --- Health problems in areas contaminated by the chernobyl disaster: radiation. traumatic stress or chronic stress Chapter 13 --- When political reality enters therapy: ethical considerations in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder Chapter 14 --- Working through the holocaust: still a task for Germany's youth Chapter 15 --- Primary prevention of traumatic stress caused by war Chapter 16--- Epilogue