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Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims´ experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the development and current status of each of these frameworks, examining traumatic experiences and human rights violations across a range of populations and describing efforts to remediate them. Individual chapters address these topics among Native Americans, African Americans, children, women, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender individuals, those with mental disabilities, refugees and asylees, and older adults, and also in the context of social policy and truth and reconciliation commissions. The authors demonstrate that the trauma and human rights frameworks each contribute invaluable and complementary insights, and that their integration can help us fully appreciate and address human suffering at both individual and collective levels.

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Trauma and Human Rights Chapter 2: Traumatic Experience, Human Rights Violations, and Their Intersection Chapter 3: Moving Toward Trauma-Informed and Human Rights-Based Social Policy: the Role of the Helping Professions Chapter 4: Enhancing Indigenous Wellbeing: Applying Human Rights and Trauma-Informed Perspectives with Native Americans Chapter 5: Black Trauma in the US and the Pursuit of Human Rights: A Brief History Chapter 6: Children´s Experiences of Trauma and Human Rights Violations Around the World Chapter 7: Women, Trauma, and Human Rights Chapter 8: The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Perspective Chapter 9: Mental Disability, Trauma, and Human Rights Chapter 10: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Chapter 11: The Interrelationship between Aging, Trauma, and the End of Life Chapter 12: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Human Rights, and Trauma Chapter 13: Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering

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Lisa D. Butler, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA.

Filomena M. Critelli, PhD, is Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA.

Janice Carello, LMSW, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Edinboro University, in Edinboro, PA, USA.

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