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Appendix 1. About the contributors
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Nora Sveaass. A clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Nora Sveaass chairs Health and Human Rights Info and until 2013 was a member of the UN Committee against Torture. She has worked for many years with survivors of trauma and forced migration at Oslo University’ s Psychosocial Centre for Refugees, and is currently directing a research project on transitional justice.
Doris Drews is a specialist in psychiatry, who for many years has treated severely traumatised clients. In addition to working as a therapist and teaching, she is currently head of the emergency unit at a large psychiatric outpatient clinic near Oslo.
Katinka Salvesen is a clinical psychologist who works with trauma patients at the Modum Bad Clinic in Oslo. An experienced trainer, she has trained helpers working with survivors of sexual violence in Congo. A graduate in art and expressive therapy, she lectures at the Regional Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress, Oslo, on mapping and diagnosis, training and specialisation, and relational trauma and processing.
Annika With is an actress and an artistic and expressive therapist with postgraduate studies in sensorimotor psychotherapy, and eye movement desensitisation reprocessing( EMDR). She runs projects on and gives counselling to dissociative patients, as well as working with trauma patients in the Modum Bad Clinic, Oslo.
Solveig Dahl, a psychiatrist, was one of the founders of the Rape Victims Services in an emergency ward in Oslo. Her doctorate thesis examined rape as a health risk. She was a Special Adviser to Norwegian People’ s Aid on women’ s projects during the war in the Balkans from 1993 to 1995, and Mental Health Coordinator for the World Health Organisation’ s Rehabilitation of War Victims programme in 1995-1996. She has worked with traumatised refugees in Norway at Oslo University’ s Psychosocial Centre for Refugees.
Helen Christie is a clinical psychologist and special adviser at the Regional Centre for Children and Adolescent Mental Health, East and South( R-BUP). She has worked for many years with refugee children in Norway and children in war zones, on trauma, sexual abuse of children, and the effects of child sexual abuse in adulthood.
Josefin Larson has a Master’ s Degree in psychology. Her research focuses on culture and social psychology, especially in multicultural societies.
Elisabeth Ng Langdal is the Executive Director of Health and Human Rights Info. She has a master’ s degree in human geography and a bachelor in media studies from Oslo University.