Spirals of Suffering: Public Violence and Children.

Abstract

This book is a collection of papers on the effects of public violence on children in South Africa. Section 1 of this report is an overview of the findings of South Africa's Goldstone Commission of into the Effects of Public Violence on Children. Section 2 concentrates on assessing problems and intervening to relieve them. following'essays are included: (1) Introduction (Brian Rock); (2) Overview (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (3) and Violence: Quantifying the Damage (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (4) Going beyond the Statistics (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (5) Survey of Organizations Providing Services to Children (Norman Duncan. and Brian Rock); (6) Inquiry Recommendations (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (7) Advisory Panel Recommendations; (8) Assessing the Impact of Violence on Children (Peter Newell); (9) Being Human vs. Having Human Rights (Cosmas Desmond); (10) Post-traumatic Stress in Children: Presentation and Intervention Guidelines (Gill Eagle and Catherine Michelson); (11) Working with Traumatized Children: A Community Project (Sheila Miller); and (12) The Survivors of Apartheid and Political Violence in KwaZulu-Natal (Anne McKay). An appendix lists resource contacts. Each chapter contains references, and there is a reference list for each section. (Contains 28 tables.) (SLD) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ********************************************************************************