Psychlogical Counseling Styles and Their Techniques in Coping with Genocide Victims.

Abstract

"Abstract Genocide has affected human societies since ancient times, and in the modern era the genocide is a global phenomenon: from the massacres in colonial America, Africa and Australia.. to the Holocaust of European Jews and mass death in Maoist China, Cambodia, Palestine and Burma, and in our Iraqi reality there are what is known as the Anfal, Halabja and the genocide of the people of Marshes, Speicher and Sinjar are examples for the genocide in our country, and in recent years the system of genocide studies has developed to provide analysis and understanding of the phenomenon and an understanding of the psychology of violence as well as the development of counseling and psychological assistance for survivors within the psychology of genocide survivors, and since psychological counseling as an applied branch of psychology it contributes to helping individuals survivors of the horror of the genocide.. to see and realize their psychological strength and resilience and to invest the best options, resources and opportunities available to them (Gladding, 1996). Therefore, the current research comes to review a number of counseling styles and their techniques with the victims of genocide, and their role in overcoming the painful experiences of extermination to which these individuals were exposed. The research concludes with a number of conclusions and suggestions in making the support and assistance necessity and higher value imposed by human, ethical and religious considerations. The research also recommends to adopt a national strategy that the state has to adopt in most of its institutions in establishing support and assistance centers for victims of genocide. "