United Nations Children 's Emergency Fund, UNICEF founded various psychosocial treatment centers in Sierra Leone in an effort provide trauma treatment for child soldiers. The center incorporates the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program. The objective is to provide initial removal of children from hostile environment, provide physical and emotional support and care, and eventual assistance in the reintegrating into the community. The model consists of several structural phases (UNICEF, 2005). The study conducted by Bentacourt et al. (2010) evaluated and assessed thirty-nine children undergone the psychosocial treatment in Sierra Leone and found treatment was overall positive in the short-term but long-term maintenance …show more content…
Preferably, caretakers are someone within the family system of the child and extensive searches are conducted in order to find suitable families. Reintegration is the bulk of identified challenges faced when working with child soldiers. The treatment process can not only include the child but also the community in which they are returning (UNICEF, 2005). A need for community acceptance and attitudes towards the reintegration to improve the likelihood of rehabilitation by the child. One of the goals of the militia groups was to severe the relationship ties the children with the community, and as stated previously doing so through manipulation of survival resources, substance abuse and acting as caretakers. Subsequently, causing the development of cultural stigma surrounding child soldiers as immoral and dangerous. Emphasis is placed on the significance of psychosocial adjustment (Betancourt et al., 2010) Family-level interventions was considered a priority in the rehabilitation of child soldiers at the Benin Home (Preston, 2015, Bentancourt et al., 2013, 2011). The idea as reinforced by Betancourt et al. study (2013) strong evidence supports the need for development or reintroduction of relationships, particularly those with family members. This provides the child with additional support and care and reduced long term symptoms (Bentancourt,
Think about how your life was when you were ten. For most people, the only worries were whether you finished your homework and if you’ve been recently updated for new games. Unfortunately, in Sierra Leone, kids at the age of ten were worried about if that day was the only day they’d be able to breathe. The cause of one of this devastating outcome is Sierra Leone’s Civil War. This war was a long bloody fight that took many lives and hopes of children and families.
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The media in the United Sates is accustomed to portraying Haiti as a failed state without referring to the external influences of other countries on Haiti’s problems including the 1915 to 1934 occupation of Haiti by the United States. Haiti has suffered at the hands of numerous dictators who have robbed the country of its resources, but little is said of the U.S support of some of the dictatorial regimes that have ruled over Haiti and plundered its resources (Maus, 2015). The natural disasters that have wrought havoc in Haiti in the form of hurricanes and floods are solely blamed on Haitians who have decided to destroy their land using destructive agricultural methods. Little is said of the destruction of Haiti’s natural landscape
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The war in Sierra Leone was hideous. Everyone in the country was affected in one way or another. Whether they personally were injured, had a loved one killed or got recruited to fight, no one was left unscathed. Many of the effects will affect the families financially. Sierra Leone needs funding to help families stay out of poverty and to rebuild their country after the war.
The importance that the WHO attributes to dealing with the psychological traumas of war was demonstrated by the resolution of the World Health Assembly in May 2005, which urged member states “to strengthen action to protect children from and in armed conflict” and the resolution of the WHO Executive Board...
War affects every aspect of a child 's development. Children affected by armed conflict can be injured or killed, uprooted from their homes and communities, internally displaced or refugees, orphaned or separated from their parents and families, subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation, victims of trauma as a result of being exposed to violence, deprived of education and recreation, at risk of becoming child soldiers (unknown
Though the use of child soldiers is a global concern, the highest numbers have been reported mainly in Africa and Asi...
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The Sierra Leone Civil War lasted eleven years and left Sierra Leone scared and unconstructed. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) bombarded the country but faced constant resistance from the Sierra Leone Military. Both sides relied heavily on child soldiers throughout the war and a projected 5,000 to 10,000 child soldiers were collectively used by both the Sierra Leone government and the RUF. These children forcibly entered into a life of violence and oppression, and they have since struggled to reintegrate back into society. Child soldiers have returned home with no family or future and many still face severe complications.
Civil wars have been a part of world history since before 130 BC when the Crisis of the Roman Republic took place. The Crisis of the Roman public was a extended period of social unrest in Rome that lasted from 133 BC to 30 BC. Civil wars happened back in 133 BC and still happen today. Many studies have been conducted on how wars and conflict affect the social outcomes and ideals, but few have been conducted on how they can and do effect the environment and the animals that live in it. This research paper will take a close look at the Sierra Leone civil war, the “blood diamonds” that funded the rebels, and how they effected the environment and its inhabitants.