Testing Assisted Resilience Approach Therapy (ARAT) with children victims of violence

Tutor of Resilience: A Model for Psychosocial Care Following Experiences of Adversity

“…Recommendations for refinement of the model and how best to assess outcomes are also discussed during this final meeting, with input drawn from the periodic assessments carried out with trainees. Assessment tools are further refined to make them easier to employ in poorly resourced settings like those that occur during humanitarian crises ( 66 ).…”

“…Widen the participants' point of view on the beneficiaries, in order not to limit it to impairments and psychological wounds but to focus attention on the beneficiaries' strengths (26)(27)(28)(29)(30) To ensure that these core principles will be effective in real-world settings, ToR is based on findings from several large multisite action-research studies and interventions, in national and international contexts, aimed at broadening our understanding of culturally significant protective factors and processes that foster resilience. Studies have focused on populations affected by war and forced migration (66), natural disasters (48,67), abuse and maltreatment (39,68) and other types of adversity (69). The ToR model proposes a twin-track approach which includes: (1) transforming the attitudes of services providers to better perceive the strengths of beneficiaries, rather than training service providers as program facilitators (70); and (2) flexibly building contextually and culturally specific interventions through a five-phase method that ensures programming will influence positively the well-being of program beneficiaries.…”

“…Recommendations for refinement of the model and how best to assess outcomes are also discussed during this final meeting, with input drawn from the periodic assessments carried out with trainees. Assessment tools are further refined to make them easier to employ in poorly resourced settings like those that occur during humanitarian crises (66). Indeed, Syrian children are at heightened risk for psychiatric distress (66,81) and developmental problems (82) due to their histories of exposure to potentially traumatizing events (83,84) and the daily hassles and prejudice they experience in host countries (85,86) which hinder their efforts for integration.…”

“…Assessment tools are further refined to make them easier to employ in poorly resourced settings like those that occur during humanitarian crises (66). Indeed, Syrian children are at heightened risk for psychiatric distress (66,81) and developmental problems (82) due to their histories of exposure to potentially traumatizing events (83,84) and the daily hassles and prejudice they experience in host countries (85,86) which hinder their efforts for integration. Lebanese children taking part to the program belong to host communities that were also experiencing difficulty accessing services, in particular public sector healthcare (87) which has become strained as it responds to the needs of a growing number of refugees.…”

“…To ensure that these core principles will be effective in real-world settings, ToR is based on findings from several large multisite action-research studies and interventions, in national and international contexts, aimed at broadening our understanding of culturally significant protective factors and processes that foster resilience. Studies have focused on populations affected by war and forced migration ( 66 ), natural disasters ( 48 , 67 ), abuse and maltreatment ( 39 , 68 ) and other types of adversity ( 69 ).…”