ISSN 1538-1080
DOI:10.58717/ijhc.01

Healing a Country: Rwandans Lead the Way

Healing a Country: Rwandans Lead the Way

This is a report on an extremely effective method for treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) a problem that is being experienced increasingly around the world. Until recently, treatments for PTSD have been disappointingly limited in their benefits. The experiences of a team of therapists practicing Thought Field Therapy (TFT) in Rwanda are shared, with exceptional results in treating victims of the 1994 genocide. The people of Rwanda had suffered their traumas for over twenty years. Despite their decades of suffering, a single session of TFT sufficed in most cases to clear many or all of the troublesome PTSD symptoms. The local Rwandan people receiving training in TFT and treated others, reported they were able to help over 20,000 people since the start of the Association for TFT (ATFT) training project. The treatment was administered by newly trained Rwandan community leaders, starting immediately after a two-day training in using TFT. Treatment times averaged 55 minutes. In two randomized controlled studies, highly significant differences (p < .001) were found between pre and posttest sores of treated and untreated (waitlisted) study participants reporting symptoms of trauma following the 1994 genocide. In a two-year follow-up study the results were maintained. The results suggest that a one-time, community leader facilitated trauma-focused TFT intervention may be beneficial with protracted PTSD in genocide survivors. The results suggest that a one-time, community leader facilitated, trauma-focused TFT intervention may be highly beneficial for protracted PTSD in genocide survivors.

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