Impact of the trauma of refugees of war on mental health workers

Impact du trauma des réfugiés de guerre sur les intervenants en santé mentale

Zeina Zerbé , Rose-Marie Nassif Abou Assaf , Nathalie Der-Sahaguian Ayvazian , Cosette Maalouf , Mayssa El Husseini (1)

1 CHSSC - Centre d'Histoire des Sociétés, des Sciences et des Conflits - UR UPJV 4289

As part of a research project aiming to measure the psychological impact of humanitarian intervention in the wars affecting the Middle East, 28 humanitarian players working with refugees and displaced people took part in semi-structured qualitative interviews. The material was analysed using the interpretative phenomenological approach. The results show indications of transmission of the trauma when issues of identity and a sense of belonging are involved, psychosomatic manifestations as well as complex transference-countertransference relationships.

Mots clés: *Countertransference; *Refugees; armed conflict; Armed Conflicts; conflit armé; contexte humanitaire; Health Personnel/*psychology; humanitarian context; Humans; identité; identity; Infant; Middle East; refugee; réfugié; transmission; trauma

Domaines: Psychologie

Zeina Zerbé, Rose-Marie Nassif Abou Assaf, Nathalie Der-Sahaguian Ayvazian, Cosette Maalouf, Mayssa El Husseini. Impact du trauma des réfugiés de guerre sur les intervenants en santé mentale. Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere, 2018, 63 (827), pp.40--42. ⟨10.1016/j.soin.2018.05.008⟩. ⟨hal-03665098⟩