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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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1 results foundAuthor: Dix-Peek, Dominique Title: Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and Its Consequences in South Africa Summary: The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is a multi-disciplinary institute whose primary goal is to use its expertise in building reconciliation, democracy and a human rights culture, and in preventing violence in South Africa and other countries in Africa. The Trauma and Transition Programme (TTP) of the CSVR aims to sustain democracy through addressing the issues of unresolved trauma, torture, criminal violence and forced migration through psychosocial support, research and advocacy in South Africa and the continent. TTP was set up in 1989 to offer a free counselling service to victims of political violence. Since the mid-1990s we have seen a shift from political violence to criminal violence within the country. From the late 1990s, TTP began counselling refugees and asylum seekers, individuals and groups from various African countries who had experienced violent conflict in their home countries and/or violence in South Africa. With the support of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT), since 2007, TTP has embarked on a project aiming to strengthen the struggle against torture in South Africa and the African region. One of our objectives is to develop a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluating (M&E) system for the psychosocial services provided to victims of torture. The development of all M&E instruments and the system itself was informed by current theory and achieved through collaboration between clinical staff, researchers, external consultants, and RCT staff. The system has changed over time to accommodate challenges encountered through implementation. As the aims of M&E include the creation of spaces for reflection and learning, it is hoped that this process will help us learn more about our interventions and assist clinicians in improving their services to victims of torture. It also allows us to gather data on victims of torture within our context. A new phase in the project was initiated in 2009 and will run until 2011. This report is one of the outputs under this project. It is the third report of its kind as a 2009 report and a 2010 mid-year report have already been produced. This report looks at 2010 and describes the group of torture clients who received counselling services during this period, although the impact data includes clients up until 2010. After going through a general TTP intake, a client has one session with his/her counsellor in order to provide immediate support and containment, after which a more comprehensive M&E intake is done. After every session, the clinician should complete a counselling Intervention Process Note (IPN) and after every six sessions, the client is asked to complete a self-assessment to assess his/her improvement in function or reduction in symptoms. When counselling ends, the clinician should complete a Termination Intervention Process Note (Termination IPN). This report uses the information obtained through this system by detailing the characteristics of clients who completed an intake assessment in 2010; providing baseline data in terms of the 4 impact that our services have had on clients since the beginning of the project; providing examples of individual Client Progress Reports produced in 2010; describing the drop-out rates for the year, including the reason for drop-out; and outlining the compliance rates achieved in terms of documentation of M&E instruments. Details: Johannesburg, South Africa: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 2010. 52p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 28, 2011 at: http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/csvrrctannual.pdf Year: 2010 Country: South Africa URL: http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/csvrrctannual.pdf Shelf Number: 121565 Keywords: Mental Health ServicesTorture (South Africa)Victims of Crime, Services for |