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elationship and secondly, the impact this has on the effectiveness on collective reconciliation,coupled with issues of stigmatization of mental health.Torture-Sanctioning Health Professionals: A Case StudyPeter Golden, Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture, Canada (petergolden@shaw.ca)The participation of health care professionals in torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman anddegrading treatment is an on-going and increasing problem in most countries throughout theworld. Despite being contrary to international law, health care professionals continue to designand implement these practices with impunity. A proposal for an International HealthProfessionals Ethics Oversight Committee developed by the Victoria Coalition for Survivors ofTorture has been presented at previous meetings of the IALMH. The proposal continues to berevised, and to garner interest and support. This presentation will present a case study of how theOversight Committee would address the gaps in national and international regulations to sanctionhealth workers involved in unethical standards of practice. In particular, the case study considersa professional misconduct complaint against a psychologist. The psychologist is alleged to haveparticipated in the development of “enhanced” or abusive interrogation techniques used by themilitary and security forces of a western democratic country. The alleged conduct violatesvarious local statutes and falls below the standard of conduct established by the professionalgoverning body. Despite compelling and publically available evidence, the professionalgoverning body with the local jurisdiction to consider the complaint against the psychologistrejected the complaint without comment. The case study looks at what other avenues ofinvestigation and censure are available in these circumstances and underlines the shortcomingsthese alternatives present to an effective system of oversight for health professionals involved intorture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.Reflection of Legal and Social Consequences on Mental Health Condition ofVictims of Ethnic Cleansing in GeorgiaMariam Jishkariani, RCT/EMPATHY, Georgia (mjishkariani@yahoo.com)Introduction: The main goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-profileintervention in cases of victims of ethnic cleansing in Georgia. Methods: Multi-profile medicalfiles and several PTSD focused psychological inventories were used. Results: Based onobservation in 2011, n = 413 victims were observed. Among them 302 had experience of ethniccleansing and/or torture during conflicts in Chechnya and occupied territories of Georgia.According to the data analysis, in 266 cases (88% of 302) physical disturbances were observedtogether with psychological problems. Multi-profile treatment and rehabilitation were provided.Legal redress was not achieved. In all cases mental problems were revealed to have wavydynamics with tendencies for chronic changes in personality. Discussion: Correlations of trauma397