Towards a Culturally Appropriate Mental Health System: Sudanese-Australians’ Experiences with Trauma
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JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 1 pp. 53–60 Address for correspondence: Alicia Copping, School of Psychology, Locked Bag 1342, UTAS, Newnham TAS 7250, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] A 16 year old girl is walking home from school. Suddenly she is attacked by a group of four older men. The men drag her into a nearby house where she is systematically raped and assaulted. She escapes 12 hours later. The memory of that event never leaves her, but somehow she has managed to rebuild her life. She has made her way along the post life crisis journey to a point where, though she can never forget what has happened to her, she has survived.
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