Somatic Psychotherapy Approach of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Children

Somatic Approach of Internal Displaced Descendants

Armed conflicts have never stopped in the world and a large part of the globe still experiences  armed confrontations today. According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), the number of battles and violence against civilians has increased again in 2022  compared to 2021. At the end of 2021, the number of people uprooted by war, violence,  persecution, and human rights violations stood at 89.3 million, an 8% increase over the previous year and well over double the figure from a decade ago, according to UNHCR\’s annual Global Trends Report.

As of May 2022, more than 100 million people were uprooted worldwide due to  persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, or serious disruption of public order. Not  only uprooted people lose their bearings, but also their social status, creating immense stress for individuals and their families, including their descendants through memory transmission. This paper is on the contribution of somatic psychology to the traumas inherited from uprooted people at an individual and a collective level.

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