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Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Survivors of Mass Atrocity
Chapter 1 – Mass Atrocity Crimes
Chapter 2 – Understanding the Historical Context
Chapter 3 – Identifying a Holocaust Survivor
Chapter 4 – Changing Perceptions about Holocaust Survivors
Part II: Understanding Survivors
Chapter 5 – Impact of Trauma: Vulnerability and Resilience
Chapter 6 – Environmental Factors that Reduce the Impact of Trauma
Chapter 7 – Other Issues Unique to Survivors
Part III: Survivor Services and Programs
Chapter 8 – Transcending Victimization through Empowerment
Chapter 9 – Creating a Specialized Program
Chapter 10 – Short-term Group Services
Chapter 11 – Long-Term Group Service: An Incubator Environment
Chapter 12 – Intergenerational Programs
Part IV: Professional Interactions with Survivors
Chapter 13 – Therapeutic Responses
Chapter 14 – Responses to Environmental Triggers
Chapter 15 – Responses to Emotional Reactions
Chapter 16 – Professional Considerations
Part V: Going Forward
Chapter 17 – Recovery Milestones Applicable to Other Communities
Afterword
Appendix A: Mass Atrocity Crimes
Appendix B: Rafael Lemkin: A Survivor’s Contribution to Society
Glossary
References
Index
About the author
Myra Giberovitch is an adjunct teaching professor and field placement supervisor in the School of Social Work at McGill University as well as the founder of Services for Holocaust Survivors at the Cummings Centre in Montreal.
Summary
Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.
