Cross-cultural Counseling | Sudanese Refugee | Naome Madut | mental illness | traditional healing

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Cross-cultural Counseling: A Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee
Naome Madut

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In most Sub-Saharan African cultures, including Sudanese culture, views on mental illness are tied with traditional healing and cultural beliefs. Practises such as prayers and religious rituals, animal sacrifices, and purification from the evil eye, have long been utilised in the treatment of mental illness. This presentation explores some of these traditional beliefs and their impact upon utilising mental health services. It draws extensively on a case study of a 32 year-old male Sudanese client who had presented with complex PTSD symptoms and multiple losses. Naome Madut will illustrate how it is possible to incorporate traditional healing and the western modules of therapy.

Recorded at the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)
September 2010, New South Wales, Australia.
Visit STARTTS at : www.STARTTS.org.au

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TITLE	SPEAKER	DURATION
Cross-cultural Counselling: A Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee	Naome Madut	20'04"
Cross-cultural Counseling: A Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee	Naome Madut
Cross-cultural Counseling: A Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee	Naome Madut

Naome Madut

Naome Madut has been working at STARTTS as a Bi-cultural Counsellor for the last 5 years. She has extensive experience working with different UN agencies in various refugee camps in different countries in Africa including: Ethiopia; Uganda; Kenya; and the internally displaced camps within the conflict areas of Southern Sudan. Prior to coming to Australia she worked with Humanitarian Landmine Action, Demobilisation and Disarmament of Child Soldiers Task Force, and the Sudan Human Rights Association in Southern Sudan. Naome is currently completing her Social work degree at Charles Sturt University.