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- Title
Adopting a Strength-based, Indigenous-focused Approach to Studying Kuwait Post-traumatic Stress.
- Authors
Al-naser, Fahad; Ridha, Hadi Mukhtar Ali; Figley, Charles R.
- Abstract
Research design can be elegant but rarely does good research embarking on a new and complex area travel in a straight line. This article briefly describes the winding journey of three investigators, two Kuwaitis, a sociologist and the other a social work researcher, and one American psychologist. Their goal was to tale the emotional pulse of Kuwait in the shadows of fifteen years of Iraq-induced trauma. Along the way they adopt an indigenous focus that lead them to invent a measure of Raha (wellbeing) especially suited for studying Kuwaitis. The latter portion of the paper describes the procedures and results of the development of the Kuwaiti Raha Scale, ending with a discussion of the implications for international research in the social sciences. This study was funded by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS).
- Subjects
IRAQ; KUWAIT; POST-traumatic stress disorder; EXPERIMENTAL design; ANXIETY; PSYCHOLOGISTS; PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS; SOCIOLOGISTS
- Publication
DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies, 2005, Vol 14, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1060-4367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1949-3606.2005.tb00893.x