A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees (eBook)

Paul Cilia La Cilia La Corte, Angelina Jalonen (Autoren)

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2017
176 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78450-334-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This accessible interdisciplinary guide shows helping professionals how to achieve effective, therapeutically informed care for refugees. Using three core principles across four key stages of a refugee's experience, it's the essential tool for professionals helping refugees to recover and integrate in their host country.

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The need to support refugees has never been more urgent, but how can everyone working with them provide consistently effective care? Written for a range of professionals including therapists, teachers, social workers, housing support workers and healthcare professionals, this essential guide offers a holistic, person-centred framework to ensure that all those working with refugees to provide them with excellent support.Informed by the authors' direct work with refugees, the book starts with a comprehensive introduction to understanding the underlying issues that lead to the complex needs of an asylum seeking client group. Using an easy-to-follow 'what?', 'why?' and 'how?' structure, within the four key phases of refugee experience. It also shows professionals how to sensitively address trauma, loss and separation with clients who are adjusting to a foreign culture and language using three core principles (therapeutic relationship, bearing witness and psycho-education).Informed and accessible, this guide will help you create a safe, welcoming environment for asylum seekers in all stages of their journey to improve their psychosocial wellbeing and mental health.

Autor

Angelina Jalonen and Paul Cilia La Corte are integrative counsellors who hold Masters in Refugee Care. Since 2011 they have been working together to develop The Refugee Council's therapeutic framework for refugees in the UK.

Inhalt

Acknowledgement. Preface - How to work with this book effectively. Introduction. Part One - Understanding: the refugee phenomena. 1. The 4 phases of refugee experience. 2. Refugee trauma: loss and separation. 3. Refugee mental health. 4. Host country acculturalisation. 5. The complex and multiple level of needs. 6. Self-identity: resilience, strengths and ability to cope. Part Two - The working framework. 7. Refugee Therapeutic care model (RTC model). 8. Cultural competence and cultural humility. 9. Psychosocial and multidisciplinary approach. Part Three - Self-reflective practice and self-care. 10. The victim triangle. 11. A reflective approach. 12. Clinical supervision. Conclusions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2017
• Vorwort: Jerry Clore
• Zusatzinfo: B&W
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: asylum and immigration law • Asylum law • asylum seeker book • Border Control • Care • channel crossing • child refugees • Citizenship • Civil War • climate refugees • Counselling • Cultural Integration • Diaspora • European migrant crisis • European Union • Gaza • illegal immigrant • Immigration • Immigration Law • Isis • Islamic State • loneliness • Palestine • Political Asylum • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Refuge • Refugee camp • Refugee crisis • refugee support • seeking asylum • small boats • Somalia • Sudan • Support • Syria • therapy • The Refugee Council • Trauma • United Nations Refugee Agency • War Crime • Yemen
• ISBN-10: 1-78450-334-7 / 1784503347
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78450-334-5 / 9781784503345