OSCE trains psychologists in Tajikistan on rehabilitation techniques for domestic violence survivors
DUSHANBE, 14 October 2016 – The application of specific psychological rehabilitation techniques for survivors of domestic violence was the focus of a four-day training course that concluded today in Dushanbe. The course for 18 psychologists from the OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres was organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.
Participants learned about individual counselling, psychotherapy and rehabilitation techniques while working with domestic violence survivors. They also improved their skills in diagnostic techniques, as well as techniques for coping with anger, depression, suicidal attempts, building survivors’ self-confidence and other psychological therapy approaches.
“This training course is one in a series of capacity-building events planned and organized for the staff of Women Resource Centres this year,” said Tuula Yrjölä, the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan. “The Centres remain the largest nationwide network of civil society organizations with a special focus on protection of domestic violence survivors. During the last five years only, over 70,000 direct beneficiaries enjoyed the assistance measures within those 18 Centres.”
This event will be followed by another three-day training course from 9 to 11 November targeting the same group of psychologists and focused on specific behaviour correction techniques for aggressors and individual counselling of family members.
Building the capacity of civil society representatives to support the survivors of the domestic violence is one of the commitments of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in implementing the OSCE’s 2004 Gender Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality.