The chronic war in Cambodia was prolonged the long time which affected to Cambodia villagers living with the bad emotion. They need some help from the Social Worker to find the way how to improve their situation form the bad experience to recover any action taken for their families. Thus based on our experience with rural community we would be happy to share some experience how to support the people living with trauma and how engage them to the group meeting as show below procedure of the meeting: 1. Goal of the meeting:
- Empower and increase group ability to help themselves
- Reduce isolation
- Trust and form good relationships
- Give and get support
- Less discrimination in village
- Improve ability to communicate with each other
- Learn to carry-out plans to improve lives
- Save money to generate income or for emergencies
- Reduce anxiety, depression, and family problems
- Help and have self-respect, confidence, feel good about selves.
2. Listening Skill
- Non-verbal listening
- Repeating the basic message
- Asking for clarification
- Verifying listening is accurate
3. Questioning Skill
- Questions to got facts and details
- Indirect questions to let the group decide what to talk about
- Direct questions to take it to more depth
- Focusing questions
- Questions to connect thinking, felling, behavior, and situation
4. Reflecting
- Behavior
- Feelings and emotions
- Reflecting point of view
- Reflecting experience – connection between
- Situation/thoughts/feelings/behavior
5. Problem Solving
- Identify needs
- Brainstorm solutions
- Select the best solution/ review positive and negative parts
- Plan who will do what, when, where, how
- Carryout plan
- Review how the plan is working
Therefore the five procedures of the group can help the Social Worker to find the strategy to support them to recover from the trauma problem.
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