Vulnerability and Coping Strategies in Cambodia: Psycho-Social Vulnerability

The purpose of the project was to provide a preliminary assessment of a) the relevance and appropriateness of Western psycho-therapeutic models based on certain notions of trauma, health, illness, vulnerable groups and childhood; b) the range of factors that mediate the impact of conflict at the individual, family and community levels; c) ways in which psycho-social distress may have affected the capacity of people to rebuild their lives; and d) the nature of institutional responses to psycho-social vulnerability.

The project was carried out in collaboration with the United Nations Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, and in Phnom Penh with UNICEF and IDRC.