Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home

by Renos K. Papadopoulos (Editor)

Overview

This volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees. It covers theory and research as well as clinical and field applications, emphasising the psychotherapeutic perspective. It explores the delicate balance between accepting the resilience of refugees whilst not neglecting their psychological needs, within a framework that avoids pathologising their condition. Moreover, it deals with the difficulties in delineating the various relevant intersecting perspectives to the refugee reality, e.g. psychological, socio-political, legal, organisational and ethical. The book introduces important considerations about the actual psychotherapy with refugees (in individual, family and group settings) but in addition, it encourages the introduction of therapeutic elements to all types of work with refugees. Thus, it argues for the necessity of approaching every facet of the refugee experience from a therapeutic perspective; this is why the title refers to therapeutic care rather than to psychotherapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855752832
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2002
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Preface , Foreword , Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , Delineating the Context , Refugees, home and trauma 1 , Misconceiving refugees? , The refugee condition: legal and therapeutic dimensions , Clinical , Remaking connections: refugees and the development of “emotional capital” in therapy groups , Refugee children and abuse , Finding a way through: from mindlessness to minding , Killing time: work with refugees , Transient familiar others. Uninvited persons in psychotherapy with refugees , Research , “We have to blame ourselves”—refugees and the politics of systemic practice , Two phases of the refugee experience: interviews with refugees and support organizations 1 , Field Projects , Some assumptions on psychological trauma interventions in post-conflict communities , Strangers to ourselves , Working with psychosocial counsellors of refugees in their country of origin: exploring the interaction of professional and other discourses , In the aftermath of violence: therapeutic intervention in Kosova 1