Therapeutic governance: psycho-social intervention and trauma risk management,.
This paper critically analyses the significance of psycho-social intervention as a new form of international therapeutic governance based on social risk management. First, the paper examines the international psycho-social model and its origins in an Anglo-American therapeutic ethos. Second, the paper argues that psycho-social approaches jeopardise local coping strategies. Third, the paper highlights the potential political, social and psychological consequences of the pathologisation of war-affected societies. Finally the paper concludes that therapeutic governance represents the reduction of politics to administration.
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School of Politics, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Nottingham. vanessa.pupavac@nottingham.ac.uk
D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012066:Relief Work; D012308:Risk Management; D012946:Social Welfare; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D014857:Warfare