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  1. Research

    Healing their Wounds: Guatemalan Refugee Women as Political Activists

    Light, Deborah. 1992. "Healing their Wounds: Guatemalan Refugee Women as Political Activists." Women & Therapy 13 (3): 297-308.

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    Topics: Displacement & Migration, Refugees, Ethnicity, Gender, Women, Governance, Health, Mental Health, PTSD, Trauma, Political Participation, Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Americas, Central America Countries: Guatemala Keywords: activism, internally displaced, female refugees

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    Terror, Silencing, and Children: International, Multidisciplinary Collaboration with Guatemalan Maya Communities

    Lykes, M. Brinton. 1994. “Terror, Silencing, and Children: International, Multidisciplinary Collaboration with Guatemalan Maya Communities.” Social Science and Medicine 38 (4): 543-52.

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    Topics: Armed Conflict, Health, Mental Health, PTSD, Trauma, Indigenous, Violence Regions: Americas, Central America Countries: Guatemala

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    Gold Mining on Mayan-Mam Territory: Social Unravelling, Discord and Distress in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

    Caxaj, C. Susana, Helene Berman, Colleen Varcoe, Susan L. Ray, and Jean-Paul Restoulec. 2014. “Gold Mining on Mayan-Mam Territory: Social Unravelling, Discord and Distress in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.” Social Science & Medicine 111 (June): 50–7. 

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    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Economies, Extractive Industries, Health, Mental Health Regions: Americas, Central America Countries: Guatemala Keywords: Guatemala, mental health, violence, community health, mining, suffering, insecurity, Psychological distress

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    A Narrative Study of Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence in the Context of War

    Berman, Helene, Estrella Rosa Irías Girón, and Antonia Ponce Marroquin. 2006. “A Narrative Study of Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence in the Context of War.” Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 38 (4): 32-53.

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    Topics: Displacement & Migration, Refugees, Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Health, Mental Health, PTSD, Trauma, Sexual Violence, Rape, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, SV against Women, Torture, Sexual Torture, Violence Regions: Americas, Central America, North America, South America, Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe Countries: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala Keywords: refugees, women, war, violence, trauma, narrative, health

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    Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation: Whither Health and Human Rights?

    Lykes, M. Brinton. 2000. “Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation: Whither Health and Human Rights?” Journal of Health Psychology 5 (3): 383–97.

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    Topics: Armed Conflict, Gender, Women, Health, Mental Health, Peacebuilding, Rights, Human Rights Regions: Americas, Central America Countries: Guatemala Keywords: health, human rights, liberatory psychology

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