Ambiguous Reunification: A Way for Social Workers to Conceptualize the Return of Children after Abduction and Other Separations

Greif, Geoffrey L.

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“…Geoffrey Greif developed the concept of “ambiguous reunification” when conceptualizing the reunification process that occurs after child abduction. 27 In ambiguous reunification, ambiguity surrounds the reunification process, as parties seek to re-capture their old relationship or build a new one. As Greif describes, in ambiguous reunification, “the loved one is no longer missing physically but may be absent psychologically.” 28 During the reunification of missing children with their families, a child may be psychologically absent upon return, or a parent may be psychologically absent, or both—thus the term “ambiguous reunification.” 29 The team’s prior study suggested that the disappeared Salvadoran youth also experienced an ambiguous reunification.…”

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My Child’s Journey Home: Perspectives of Adult Family Members on the Separation and Reunification of the “Disappeared” Children of El Salvador

Barnert¹,

Lopez²,

Bourgois³

et al. 2019

Human Rights Quarterly

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This article explores family separation and reunification of the disappeared Salvadoran children separated from their families during El Salvador’s civil war (1980–1992) from the perspectives of adult relatives. During separation, adult relatives experienced an “unresolvable loss.” Following reunion, families experienced an immediate relief that was often accompanied by an “ambiguous reunification.” Emotions were especially complicated and painful when the separation had been a “forced choice” by the parent under coercive wartime political conditions. Adoptive parents strongly influenced reunification. Findings suggest that disappeared children and biological and adoptive family members need psycho-social support throughout separation and reunification.

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My Child’s Journey Home: Perspectives of Adult Family Members on the Separation and Reunification of the “Disappeared” Children of El Salvador

Barnert¹,

Lopez²,

Bourgois³

et al. 2019

Human Rights Quarterly

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“…Para realizar el estudio de resultados se hizo un ejercicio de análisis categorial en el que se destacaron los campos de trabajo en resiliencia familiar, vale aclarar que si bien este ejercicio se refirió a la campos disciplinares psicológicos, un resultado evidenciado es que el trabajo en resiliencia es de orden transdisciplinar, en tanto ciencias como la enfermería (Borges y Silva, 2010), medicina, trabajo social (Distelberg &Taylor, 2013;Greif, 2012), y economía , presentan interesantes hallazgos.…”

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“…La última área de lo social se refiere a la recuperación de las familias que han tenido pautas relacionales violentas o de riesgo de violencia intrafamiliar y que reportan casos exitosos de reunificación en situaciones de custodia removida por maltrato infantil (Greif, 2012) o la recuperación frente a la exposición infantil a violencia intrafamiliar (Kathryn & Howell, 2011).…”

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Resiliencia familiar, comprensión, campos de aplicación, aportes y desafíos

Jaramillo-Moreno¹

2018

Divers.: Perspect. Psicol.

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Se realizó una revisión de literatura en la que se pretendió establecer el estado de la investigación y conceptualización del fenómeno de la resiliencia familiar y sus aportes entre los años 2010 y 2016. Se encontró que el estado de la investigación y conceptualización, si bien es aún incipiente, se observa una tendencia al aumento de trabajos de tipo empírico y teórico reflexivo, lo que implica una mayor relevancia frente a la investigación e intervención. Con respecto a las áreas de trabajo se observó la predominancia de: salud, neurociencias aplicadas y rehabilitación, social, comunitaria y de las organizaciones, seguidas por psicología clínica y prevención, psicología militar y en último lugar la educación, en su orden. Se concluyó que resulta imperante la continuidad en el desarrollo de estudios al respecto del tema y ampliar áreas de estudio como la psicología ambiental, política, de tránsito, de las organizaciones y el trabajo.

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Long Journey Home: Family Reunification Experiences of the Disappeared Children of El Salvador

Barnert¹,

Stover²,

Ryan³

2015

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Established in 1994, Salvadoran Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos (Association for the Search of Disappeared Children) has located 384 children, often with the aid of DNA evidence, of the more than 500 who went missing or were abducted during El Salvador's civil war. Families in other countries who were unaware of the forced separations adopted many of these children. Between 2005 and 2009, we conducted semi-structured interviews with twenty-six children, now young adults aged twenty-four to thirty-four years, who had been reunited with their biological families. We found that we could conceptually categorize the process of separation and reunification into six phases: pre-disappearance, disappearance, separation, searching, reunion, and reunification. While these young adults said that reunification was extremely important, they often found this stage psychologically challenging, given their new identities and their uncertainty about how they would reintegrate back-if at all-into their biological families. We call this process "ambiguous reunification."

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Ambiguous Reunification: A Way for Social Workers to Conceptualize the Return of Children after Abduction and Other Separations

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

My Child’s Journey Home: Perspectives of Adult Family Members on the Separation and Reunification of the “Disappeared” Children of El Salvador

My Child’s Journey Home: Perspectives of Adult Family Members on the Separation and Reunification of the “Disappeared” Children of El Salvador

Resiliencia familiar, comprensión, campos de aplicación, aportes y desafíos

Long Journey Home: Family Reunification Experiences of the Disappeared Children of El Salvador

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