Therapeutic care for refugees
Subtitle: no place like home
By: edited by Renos K. Papadopoulos
Series: Tavistock clinic series; Tavistock Clinic series
Publisher: Karnac Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781780497075
Subjects: Refugees; Mental health; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Treatment; Réfugiés; Santé mentale; État de stress post-traumatique; Traitement
Description: 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 avoides pathologising their condition.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Renos K. Papadopoulos -- Ch. 1.; title: Refugees, home and trauma  -- Renos K. Papadopoulos -- Ch. 2.; title: Misconceiving refugees?  -- Peter Loizos -- Ch. 3.; title: The refugee condition: legal and therapeutic dimensions  -- Judith Farbey -- Ch. 4.; title: Remaking connections: refugees and the development of "emotional capital" in therapy groups  -- Caroline Garland, Francesca Hume and Sarah Majid -- Ch. 5.; title: Refugee children and abuse  -- Judith A. Trowell -- Ch. 6.; title: Finding a way through: from mindlessness to minding  -- Maureen Fox -- Ch. 7.; title: Killing time: work with refugees  -- Valerie Sinason -- Ch. 8.; title: Transient familiar others. Uninvited persons in psychotherapy with refugees  -- Renos K. Papadopoulos and Violeta Hulme -- Ch. 9.; title: "We have to blame ourselves" -- refugees and the politics of systemic practice  -- Chris Glenn -- Ch. 10.; title: Two phases of the refugee experience: interviews with refugees and support organizations  -- Pamela Griffiths -- Ch. 11.; title: Some assumptions on psychological trauma interventions in post-conflict communities  -- Natale Losi -- Ch. 12.; title: Strangers to ourselves  -- Andrew Cooper and Sue Rendall -- Ch. 13.; title: Working with psychosocial counsellors of refugees in their country of origin: exploring the interaction of professional and other discourses  -- M. Kemal Kuscu and Renos K. Papadopoulos -- Ch. 14.; title: In the aftermath of violence: therapeutic intervention in Kosova -- Jenny Altschuler, Majlinda Agnoli, Merita Halitaj and Ifakete Jasiqi.