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and stress related disorders were observed in many clinical studies, but studies on the reflectionsof legal redress on dynamics of stress-related disorders were missing. Conclusion: We concludethat legal redress is significantly important for full recovery. Consequently, legal assistanceshould be considered as part of psychological rehabilitation. We conclude that research should beaddressed to comparative study between those who have received legal redress and those whostill have not been legally recognized as victims.A Comparison of the Response of the World Psychiatric Association toPsychiatric Abuse and the World Medical Association to Organ TransplantAbuseDavid Matas, University of Manitoba (dmatas@mts.net)David Matas and David Kilgour co-authored a report which concluded that Chinese hospitalsand detention centres, since 2000, have put to death large numbers of prisoners of conscience —practitioners of the spiritually based exercise regime Falun Gong – through the harvesting oftheir vital organs, which were then sold at high prices. Ethan Gutmann later concluded that otherprisoners of conscience — Tibetans, Uighurs and house Christians — have been victims of thesame abuse. The Government of China acknowledges that almost all of its organs for transplantscome from prisoners. The Soviet Psychiatric Association withdrew from the World PsychiatricAssociation in 1983 when it faced almost certain expulsion. This paper will compare theresponse of the World Medical Association to organ transplant abuse in China to the response ofthe World Psychiatric Association to psychiatric abuse in the Soviet Union. The conclusionwould be that, even taking into account the fact that organ transplant professionals are only asmall component of the Chinese Medical Association and that China today is in a far differentsituation geopolitically than the Soviet Union was in 1983, the response of the World MedicalAssociation to organ transplant abuse in China has been inadequate.170. TraumaA Model for Understanding and Treating Burn-Out and Compassion Fatigue inForensic PersonnelLee Norton, Center for Trauma Therapy, Nashville & Melbourne, USA(norton@centerfortraumatherapy.com)The term compassion fatigue was coined in 1995 by Dr. Charles Figley (1995, CompassionFatigue: Coping with secondary stress in those who treat the traumatized) to describe thecumulative effects experienced by those who work with traumatized individuals. Compassionfatigue is sometime used synonymously with secondary trauma, but Baranowsky and Gentry398