Listening for the sounds of silence: a nursing consideration of caring for the politically tortured.

Abstract:

:In 1997 Amnesty International reported that 115 out of 251 countries surveyed practised torture on their citizens. Many of these victims have been forced to flee their country of origin and become refugees in the West, in countries such as Australia, Canada, the UK and the United States. However, torture itself remains an unspoken and covert problem. In addition to the obvious traumatic effects, it may induce shame and dread on the part of the victim. It may be too terrifying and too painful to talk about, and yet may affect every aspect of a person's life (Forrest 1996). All too commonly a victim of torture may pass unnoticed or unrecognised because health care providers do not know how, or may be unwilling to engage with the issue. This paper will examine the implications for nurses of caring for the tortured. It will explore the nature of torture itself, who might be the perpetrators and who might be the victims (always acknowledging that nurses and other health care staff are often both), how victims of torture may present for health care, and the possible subjective perceptions of a torture victim when faced with a Western health care process and understanding. Finally, it will argue for an increase in awareness and sensitivity on the part of all nurses in all health care settings to the needs and sensibilities of victims of torture, and suggest that caring for them is the distillation of everything good nursing practice should be.

journal_name

Nurs Inq

journal_title

Nursing inquiry

authors

Racine-Welch T,Welch M

doi

10.1046/j.1440-1800.2000.00055.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-06-01 00:00:00

pages

136-41

issue

2

eissn

1320-7881

issn

1440-1800

journal_volume

7

pub_type

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